261,000 turkeys, 7.5 million mince pies, 760,000 and, most upsettingly, 11.3 million roasties are binned each Christmas. 

              . The Venice Islands in Italy were built on a foundation of tree trunks and 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice. They will stay there for thousands of years more as long as they stay submerged. Because they are not exposed to oxygen, they do not rot. They actually have begun to petrify due to the mineral rich water. So in another thousand years, they will actually become stone pilings. 

When George Washington died in 1799, Napoleon ordered 10 days of nationwide mourning in France.

 There is an Australian band called “The Beards”. Every single one of their 38 songs is about beards. 

Mount Everest is only the 23rd tallest mountain in the solar system. –

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. Doctors before the eleventh century would drink the urine of their patients to determine whether or not they had diabetes. A sugary taste indicated the person was diabetic. – S

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. Massive flood-scarred Mars surface 500 million years ago. 

 Charlie Chaplin’s corpse was stolen by a small group of Swiss mechanics in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin’- Source family. After retrieving his body, he was reburied under 6 feet (1.8 m) of concrete to prevent further attempts.

 In 1954, a fifteen year old told his parents he was going to school, but then rode his bike 700 miles in a week from D.C. to Atlanta because he was “homesick for Dixie and his grandmother’s fried chicken

. The man who took the most famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster confessed to it being a hoax on his deathbed.

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                 There is a 2400 year old giant “honey mushroom” in Oregon, covering 2200 acres, slowly killing off the trees in the forest. It is the largest living organism on the planet. 

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    Humans and Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae. –

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                                             There is a small village named Pussy in France. People living in the village are called p*ssies.

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                                                                    A Swiss Jeweler made a $68 million ring that was made entirely out of diamond.

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                     The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest manmade structure on Earth for 3,871 years until the Lincoln Cathedral in England was finished in 1311. – S