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Some interesting facts

• Ed,Edd n Eddy was originally given to Nickelodeon.
• It would take at least 480 bananas to die of of potassium overdose.
• Non-photo blue is a particular shade of blue that cannot be detected by film graphic arts cameras.
• In 1970, there were half as many people in the world as there are now.
• Christmas lights can be seen from space.
• The word 'moist' is disliked by 21% of people not because of the sound but because of the association with unrelated words that should not be moist.
• Australian companies were selling sand to Saudi Arabia.
• LEGO is the the biggest manufacturer of tires on earth.
• Severus Snape's character in Harry Potter was inspired by JK Rowling's high school chemistry teacher, John Nettleship.
• Peter Capaldi, the current Doctor on Doctor Who, played a WHO Doctor in World War Z.
• The game disc for FIFA 2001 for the PS2 was a scratch and sniff disc. It was designed to smell like the turf of a football (soccer) field when scratched.
• In China, 1.6 million people die each year from air pollution.
• Scientists believe dolphins can effectively send each other "images" via echolocation by recreating the sound profile an object.
• New Zealand is one of only 6 countries in the world to have never defaulted on their debt.
• Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1982 was a Computer.