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Cheerleading started as an all-male activity

Source: http://factourism.com/source/male-cheerleader

29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from Asia

Source: http://factourism.com/source/air-pollution

Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because ‘Tintin’ would read as the slang for ‘penis’

Source: http://factourism.com/source/tantan

In Latin, a watering place for cattle was called an ‘aquarium’

Source: http://factourism.com/source/cow-aquarium

By peeing in the shower, you can save 2,200 litres of water a year

Source: http://factourism.com/source/shower-pee

McDonald’s once made bubblegum flavoured broccoli

Source: http://factourism.com/source/mc-broccoli

The sound of a black hole is a B-flat note
(57 octaves lower than the middle B)

Source: http://factourism.com/source/black-hole-sound

Tennis players produce up to 3 litres of sweat an hour

Source: http://factourism.com/source/tennis-sweat

Baby giraffes are born falling 1.5 metres to the ground

Source: http://factourism.com/source/newborn-giraffe

The world’s largest pizza was about 3 times as big as a basketball court

Source: http://factourism.com/source/largest-pizza

There is an island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island

Source: http://factourism.com/source/island-lake-island-lake-island

The first shopping cart was made from a folding chair with a basket on the seat and wheels on the legs

Source: http://factourism.com/source/shopping-chair

Blood makes a loop around your body 1,500 times a day

Source: http://factourism.com/source/blood-loop

The word ‘avocado’ comes from a Native Central American word meaning both avocado and testicle

Source: http://factourism.com/source/avocado-testicles

The Scots language has 421 words for snow

Source: http://factourism.com/source/scotland-snow

There are no stop signs in Paris
(the last one was removed in the 2010s)

Source: http://factourism.com/source/paris-stop

Some penguins engage in prostitution, providing sex for pebbles to build their nest

Source: http://factourism.com/source/penguin-prostitution

A diamond can grow inside another diamond

Source: http://factourism.com/source/diamond-diamond

There is a strip club in Canada that doubles as a church on Sundays

Source: http://factourism.com/source/strip-church

Hamsters on a wheel can run 9 km a night

Source: http://factourism.com/source/hamster-run