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3.8 million trees are cut down every year in China to make disposable chopsticks

Source: http://factourism.com/source/chopsticks-trees

The Beatles use the word “love” a total of 613 times in their songs

Source: http://factourism.com/source/beatles-love

The Olympic Games’ torch relay is originally a Nazi idea

Source: http://factourism.com/source/nazi-olympic-torch

Before 1977, tourists were allowed to climb the stones at Stonehenge

Source: http://factourism.com/source/stonehenge-climbing

Men are more likely than women to die when attempting suicide

Source: http://factourism.com/source/men-suicide

There are hundreds of dead bodies on Mount Everest. Some of them are used by climbers as indicators for directions.

Source: http://factourism.com/source/dead-climbers

China owns nearly all of the pandas in the world. They rent them out for about $1 million a year.

Source: http://factourism.com/source/renting-pandas

A building in Japan has a highway passing through its 5th, 6th and 7th floors

Source: http://factourism.com/source/highway-building

The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69

Source: http://factourism.com/source/69-kids

Women are more productive at warmer temperatures. The opposite is true for men.

Source: http://factourism.com/source/productivity-temperature

The toothbrush was invented in 1498 in China

Source: http://factourism.com/source/toothbrush-history

The weeks leading up to Christmas are the most common time for couples to break up according to their Facebook status

Source: http://factourism.com/source/christmas-break-up

Walruses can sleep while floating in water

Source: http://factourism.com/source/walrus-sleep

There was no clear word for the colour orange until the 16th century

Source: http://factourism.com/source/no-orange

People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year

Source: http://factourism.com/source/eating-plastic

There are creatures on Earth with red, blue, green, and yellow blood

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

Snails have thousands of teeth

Source: http://factourism.com/source/snail-teeth https://t.co/HZSrMjeMPr

Koalas hug trees to keep cool

Source: http://factourism.com/source/cool-koalas

Jeff Bezos is so rich that spending $1.1 million to him is like spending $1 to an average American

Source: http://factourism.com/source/
bezos-wealth

28 percent of delivery drivers have taken food from a customer’s order

Source: http://factourism.com/source/delivery-theft