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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.

Scroll through 39 of the best facts we've found. Follow our Facebook page to learn more!

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

    IQ tests are flawed, though. They only adapt to one type of affinities. They're inventing various kinds of IQ tests and IQ groups because of that. And exploring various kinds of ways to measure intelligence.

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    Kaisu
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    6 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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    6 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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    6 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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    6 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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    Stille20
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...but were they edible?

    Paola Martz
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "All mushrooms are edible, but some only once" ;)

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    Jennifer Brekke
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And long cigarette-smoking caterpillars resided atop them. A whoooo arrrrrre youuuuuuu?

    TheKnightOwl
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That scene was deleted from a showing of Alice in Wonderland on a local tv station, apparently due to drug use. Can you believe it? I watched that for the first time when I was about 6, and many times after, it didn't make me want to smoke from a hookah or eat mushrooms. Crazy.

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    Dynein
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, THAT I had to google. They did exist, but looked different than the "modern" mushrooms we know today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxite

    Bill
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The red ones make you big and the green ones give you another life

    Thundor Fox
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I might know where Minecraft got the Roofed Forest biome idea from

    Vincent Jay
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First thought which comes to mind: Alice in Wonderland.

    Edan Min
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    350 million years ago, the earth was Wonderland. Who knew?

    Trix
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Were there Smurfs living in them, too?

    Janine B.
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... and smurfs ruled the world. :)))

    SkyTheImaginer
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah but they're like giant rectangular prisms standing upright.

    Grumble O'Pug
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who doesn’t know that? (Those who don’t watch pbs Eons!)

    Satafrika
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love mushrooms. Nature should have retained a few of those

    Meow
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    anyone else thinking of minecraft? probably not :'D

    Irene Carlyle
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yum!!! with some marsala and butter sauce!!

    Brent Kaufman
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh what, and you're saying that they don't still dominate the... ummm... Wait a second... Those aren't mushrooms? Huh.

    Avril Mason
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some of them are now running countries

    Shirley Heyn
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hence, the myth of Gnomes. . . :-)

    Laura G
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That gives me the creeps.

    John Montgomery
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We invent time travel there'll be a new Instagram trend; Alice in Wonderland selfies.

    anarkzie
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like the first stage in Sonic and Knuckles?

    Michaela Šandalová
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's around 6 meters for those who don't want to google it.

    A Jones
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a lot of mushroom soup. :d

    KT Trondsen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh man, that is so cool. You could have a mushroom house!

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    LanteiaTG
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    6 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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    6 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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    6 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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    6 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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    6 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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    6 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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    6 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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    Kaisu
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    6 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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    6 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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    Emma Hunter
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't drink it though, wrong kind of alcohol.

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    Podunkus
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    6 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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    Cyndi H
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I need a bit more clarity on this... Can anyone explain?

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

    He's still celebrated in Croatia and kids get sweets on his day. They also get presents for Christmas too.

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    Sanne H.
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    15 inch = 38.1 cm, in case you were wondering

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    Natalie KS
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are there any black rhinos left? :(

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    Wyndmere
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never heard of it. — Also, never heard it.

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    Jesper Rasmussen
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Prince the artist had been made a prince in a tribe, would his title then be “Prince Prince”?

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    Wordfloe-Acid-Test
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm confused... Summer days are still longer than winter days.

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