We make personalized books packed full of curious facts about the year and day someone was born. In that fashion, we love learning curious facts about the world and the people/animals that live (and have lived) in it.

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Editor’s note: One incorrect fact was removed from the list and two were clarified with additional information.

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Jonathon Smith
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They benefit from high altitude, a culture which values good runners and an unusually high percentage of their muscle mass is posture muscle (endurance) rather than twitch (strength). Funnily on the west coast of Africa (the ultimate origin of many Jamaicans) the twitch/posture ratio is reversed, which makes for very good sprinters and other sports requiring explosive power.

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Marc
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His IQ was 160, in case you were wondering (like me).

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Kaisu
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When Jesus was alive, the Stonehenge was already a ruin. It's sometimes hard to grasp where everything is in relation to each other on the historical timeline

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Daria B
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends. Make it last 7 years - friendship never eeeeeehends" ♬♪

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Felix Feline
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Australia's diameter is 600km wider than the moon's. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia's diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.

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Cyndi H
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3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep... I had to Google it to believe it

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LanteiaTG
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more...

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Falcon
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A good stance, but difficult to execute due to pressure from the school and classmates, I would assume.

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Kaisu
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Older people should take like Internet safety classes to prevent this from happening.

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Lenka Smetanová
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once saw a document about sloths. One of them fell in the water, where an aligator was. But He manage to swim away *mindblow*!!!!

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Podunkus
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her great line on SNL: “If I ever wanted get in touch with old friends, I’d have to use a Ouija board.”

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Niall Mac Iomera
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lots of airports do this. It stops passengers having to wait

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Amr Mohamed
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well Nintendo the company, not their first video game product.

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Kanga9ine
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ted Kennedy should have borrowed it. Thinks might just have turned out a little different that fateful night.

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Kaisu
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Finland we used to watch a Disney cartoon on Christmas Eve too! At least when I was a kid, don't know about kids today

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Podunkus
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now there’s a fine title for an Irish ballad...

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Podunkus
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well that may be, plus cacao’s theobromine (an alkaloid similar to caffeine), but who the hell drinks three cups of pure dark chocolate a day anyway?

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