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interesting and lesser known facts

Part tricycle, part gyrocopter, the $295,000 Pal V Bike can travel up to 112 mph on roads and fly for up to 300 miles at altitudes up to 4,000 feet. "Glamping" is a real word. It is a combination of "glamour" and "camping". According to a report of 2017, humans have created more than 8 billion metric tons of plastic since its large-scale production began in the early 1950s. The higher ever recorded score at Scrabble was 392 for the word "caziques" at a tournament in Manchester. "Huh?" means the same thing in every language. In 2012, a billionaire offered $65m to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter. A team of researchers have found that "Pad kid poured curd pulled cod" is the world's hardest tongue twister. A lipogram novel, written by Ernest Vincent Wright called Gadsby, does not contain the letter E. The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way Galaxy at the rate of 110 kilometers p