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It can take up to fifteen years for a Christmas tree to grow. But on average, it takes about seven years.

The largest flower in the world is the Rafflesia arnoldii which can grow to be three feet across and up to twenty-four pounds.

The smallest flower in the world is the water-meal, which is only 1/42 of an inch long and 1/85 of an inch wide. It weighs approx. the same as two grains of salt.

The biggest natural crystals in the world are found in a silver mine in Mexico called the Cave of Crystals. They are made of gypsum, and some of them are 50 feet long.

The Cullian Diamond is the largest gem-quality diamond ever discovered. Found in 1906, the original 3,100 carats were cut to make jewels for the British Crown Jewels and the British Royal Family's collection.

The large number of reflecting surfaces of the crystal makes snow appear white.

Sleet is a form of snow that begins to fall, but melts on its way down.

Partly melted ice crystals usually cling together to form snowflakes, which may in rare cases grow to three to four inches diameter in size.

A snowflake can take up to an hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.

An iceberg weights about 20 million tons on average.

An estimated 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the Earth since it was formed.

In 1887, the largest snowflakes on record fell to Earth in Montana. Each snowflake was 15 inches in diameter.

Twenty percent of the Earth's surface is permanently frozen.

In Gabon, there are several 1.8-billion-year-old natural nuclear reactors.

The Earth is turning to desert at a rate of 40 square miles per day.

The most abundant metal in the earth's crust is aluminum.

A man named Irv Gordon has driven his 1966 Volvo P1800 for over 2.75 million miles.

A 64 year old UK man named Graham Short was able to engrave a microscopic message on the edge of a razor blade with his bare hands. What was the message? "Nothing is Impossible."

The bananas we eat are "asexual clones". We've been eating the same banana over and over and over again.

The term A.D. does not stand for after death. It really stands for Anno Domini which means "In the Year Of Our Lord."

Watching every episode of Sesame Street non-stop would take almost half a year.

A psychic named Uri Geller sued Nintendo saying that the Pokemon Kadabra was based off him.

The "Mystery Flavor" Dum Dum suckers are typically a combination of two different flavors.

It is illegal to buy, sell, or import the game Mortal Combat in Australia. Doing so could result in a fine of 110,000.

The Bible is the number one most shoplifted book of all time.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language where all the letters are in alphabetical order.

In Semptember 2008 a Chinese airplane had to be pushed half a mile by its crew and passengers.

A cat in a Rhode Island nursing home has predicted the deaths of over 50 of its residents.

TASER stands for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.

There have been over 1,500 "well-documented" sightings of Bigfoot since 1958.

The average American spends 1,600 hours a year watching television, and 323 hours reading.

Even today, scientists don't fully understand why a thrown stone skips across water.

It takes an estimated 2,893 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop.

The most common words spoken by a dying person is "Mother" or "Mommy."

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

In 1996, U.S. postal workers were bitten by dogs 2,795 times.

Mayonnaise will remove dead skin from your elbows.

Chewing gum while peeling onions may keep you from crying.

A Vegas woman by the name of Staysha Randall got 3,200 piercings in one sitting.

The creators of Youtube were originally working on a dating site.

Starbuck's was named after the first mate from the book "Moby Dick"

The first person to come up with the Big Bang Theory was a catholic priest.

The singular form of the word "graffiti" is "graffito"

In the picture gracing the cover of the original Super Mario, Mario is about to die.

There is a flower, called Cosmos atrosanguineus that actually smells like chocolate.

Shaggy from Scooby Doo has a real name, which is: Norville Rogers.

The United States spends more on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan then the entire NASA budget ($20,200,000,000).

The Original Power Rangers were inspired by the Japanese version of Spider Man.

The Hoba Meteorite in Namibia is not only the largest known intact meteoroid, but also the largest natural piece of iron in existence.

Cookie Monster's real name is Sid.

If you search what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything into Google, Google Calculator will say 42.

Women eat less when they're around men.

The Devil's Advocate (or Advocate Diaboli) is a real position in the Catholic Church.

It used to be commonplace for people to wear pubic wigs called merkins.

Delta Airlines once argued that is should pay less for a gay plane crash victim then it should for a straight one.

Until 2011, men could not be the victim of rape according to FBI crime reporting guidelines.

There is a new type of skydiving called Banzai Skydiving where the diver throws there parachute out of the plane ahead of them and then jump after it. The hope is that they can catch up to it, put it on, and pull the cord before impacting the ground.

Magnum sized condoms are not much bigger then regular sized condoms. Those differences are 0.32 inches longer and 0.5 inches wider at the tip.

A French postman built a castle from stones he collected on his route.

A man in New York trained crows to pick up loose change in exchange for peanuts.

The character limit for your Facebook status is: 63,206

Scientists estimate that you will fall in love seven times before getting married.

An aptronym is when you are named closely to your profession. Like the sprinter Usain Bolt or the saxophonist Alto Reed.

The phrases: Agree to disagree, Life is unfair, Take it or leave it all have a name. They are called Thought Terminating Cliches.

Thanks to the Stolen Valor Act you can be arrested in the U.S. for pretending to have won a military medal(s) and can spend up to six months in jail (or a year if you pretend it was the Medal of Honor).

The French Foreign Legion is the only military force that accepts recruits from any nationality.

Every hour of every day, gamblers lose $696,000 in Las Vegas casinos.

A heated jawbreaker can explode when bitten into.

Exhibits at Washington, DC's Newseum include the Unibomber's cabin and Saddam Hussein's poetry.

You are more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery.

A glass bottle can take as long as 4,000 years to decompose.

Oxford Dictionary's word of the year: Unfriend. To remove someone from your Facebook friends list.

Current world record for the most people in one place dressed up like Smurfs: 451.

The Las Vegas Golden Nugget hotel's swimming pool encircles an actual shark tank.





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