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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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Mademoiselle Mirage
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sad! I wanted to make a pun saying "I si what you did there" but turns out that in English you say ti? (For context ti is si in french and it's pronounced see)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks for that wonderful factoid! I have some Ella records. It's 6:30AM and I'm going to play them. The heck with the neighbors!

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Paola Martz
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was feeling the same, but sadly I haven't any records of her, so I'll just play some of Aretha Franklin :D

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Jo Choto
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to school with a girl like that. Uncanny ability.

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Spannermonkey
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6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a cool idea, but considering the band is providing the music to which she sings, it makes more sense to tune to her rather than an essentially arbitrary standardised-amplitude note. (Remembering that an instrument is tuned from one note; the intervals are then tuned relative to that.)

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Janice Roland
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i believe this. i've been blessed to have seen her perform twice. she sounds like a young girl...sweet yet deep.

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Shadow Phillips
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Celine Dion can be used for the same, for the same reason :D Both of the Utmost Ladies

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Dorothy Cloud
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, it's been so many years since I've heard her voice, I'd love to hear it again!

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Niall Mac Iomera
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That's nonsense. You either just have perfect pitch or don't. And this is pretty common

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Jonathon Smith
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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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4 years ago DotsCreated 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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