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Here are thirty interesting facts

1.The first oranges weren't orange they were green.

2.The Nile came from the greek name Neilos.

3.Nauru is 21 square kilometres.

4.Orcspel or sporcle was founded by Matt Ramme.

5.The initials JRR in the author JRR Tolkien stand for John Ronald Ruel.

6.The word robot comes from Czech

7.Hawaii is moving nearer to Alaska every year.

8.The longest bridge is in China.

9.The Sahara desert is larger than the USA.

10.The oldest volcano is in Brazil.

11.Jacques Chirac was one day the least known french president.

12.Rhode Island's full name contains Providence plantations which Rhode Island is the island that it sits on.

13. There are zero rivers in Saudi Arabia.

14.The Sahara Desert was snowing down on the 18th February 1979.

15.If a glass breaks it's cracks can move up to 3000 miles per hour.

16.8 Empire state buildings could fit into a deep ocean.

17.Eating cheese will help neutralise acids

18.The technique of fingerprinting is known as dactyloscopy

19.Johnny Appleseed made fruits but they were not for eating.

20.Scotland has over 400 words for snow

21.Peanuts are actually not nuts. They are legumes.

22.Octopi lay 56000 eggs at a time.

23.The man with the deepest voice can make sounds that humans can't hear.

24.The first Mcdonalds drive through was opened in Arizona in 1975.

25.Bananas grow upside down.

26.Volcanoes were on the moon when the dinosaurs ruled.

27.A man called T.S Elliot wore makeup.

28.You can thank greeks for Xmas.

29.US president Theodore Roosevelt had a pet hyena.

30.One US state capital doesn't have a Mcdonalds.

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