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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 per second.

If you were to spell out every number starting from "one", you wouldn't see the letter "A" until you reach "One Thousand".

There is a book titled "Everything Men Know about Women". It is filled with about 100 blank pages.

Sweden recycles so well that it has run out of garbage and now much import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs.

People will be more inclined to like you if you ask a favor of them. This is called the Ben Franklin Effect.

The total weight of all the ants on Earth is about the same as the weight of all the humans on Earth.

1 sperm has 37.5 MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1589 GB in about 3 seconds.

The average citizen of Liechtenstein doesn't even lock their door because crime in the country is so low - their last murder was in 1997.

Human behavioral studies suggest that the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.
Police officers are referred to as "cops" because of the copper badges they used to wear.

There has been a service that will anonymously ship your enemies a gallon of cow, elephant or gorilla shit, your choice.

If you say the radius of a pizza is "z" and its thickness is "a" - then the volume of the pizza will be calculated by pi*z*z*a.

Before he even speaks, the way a man stands (whether he slouches or not) accounts for 80% of a woman's first impression.

Akon's full name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badra Akon Thiam.

The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.

If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue every letter will sound the same.

A single oak tree may produce thousands of acorns each year, but only one in 10,000 acorns actually develops into a tree.

Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel.

Magic mushrooms (psilocybin) can make you permanently more creative, curious and inquisitive.

Angelina Jolie can do a Derby accent.

Indricotherium is the largest land mammal ever to have lived. It looked like a cross between an elephant, a rhino, and a giraffe, weighed 15 tons, stood 25 feel tall, and lived 30 million years ago.

In the 1990s, the CIA developed "Charlie", a convincing robotic catfish that swims just like a real fish, to collect water samples without being detected.

People who write down their goals are 42% more likely to achieve them. Telling a friend increases this rate to 78%.

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