1) The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
2) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
3) Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
4) The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone just knows the first one.
5) During World War II, IBM built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
6) During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.
7) Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
8) The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.
9) Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
10) A dime( US Coin) has 118 ridges around the edge.
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