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  1. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. #facts #factotron 4:02 AM Sep 19th, 2010 via web
  2. One in every 9000 people is an albino. #facts #factotron 3:57 AM Sep 19th, 2010 via web
  3. A snail can sleep for 3 years. #facts #factotron 3:54 AM Sep 19th, 2010 via web
  4. The Mesopotamian king ordered the construction of the Hanging Gardens for his wife because she grew up in the mountains and was homesick! 6:17 AM Mar 13th, 2010 via Netvibes
  5. Mesopotamian Religion did not believe in the after-life. They believed that all good and bad people go under-ground as ghosts and eat dirt. 6:16 AM Mar 13th, 2010 via Netvibes
  6. More than 200 distinct languages and some 700 dialects, were spoken in Australia before European settlement. #factotron #twacts [Please RT] 11:29 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  7. To become a Druid, students assembled in large groups for instruction and training, for a period of up to twenty years. #factotron #twacts 9:03 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  8. How much do you know about ancient cities? Take our quiz - http://goo.gl/7JnJ #factotron #quiz [Please RT] 4:49 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  9. From around the 12th Century, mummies were ground into a powder as a cure for various illnesses. http://goo.gl/paCb #factotron [Please RT] 3:22 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  10. In early Rome, a father could legally execute any member of his household! #factotron #twacts [Please RT] 1:22 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  11. King Charles II would collect the dust that fell off mummies. He used it on his skin, believing the "greatness" would rub off. #factotron 1:20 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  12. The first person to propose that everything is made of atoms was the Greek philosopher Democritus, around 440 B.C. #factotron #twacts 12:51 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  13. Aristotle believed that swallows passed the winter buried in heaps at the bottom of rivers. #factotron #twacts [Please RT] 12:29 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  14. The Greek engineer Hero invented a primitive steam engine in the first century A.D. The same design is still used in lawn sprinklers today! 12:28 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  15. When Greek mathematicians first proved the square root of two is an irrational number, they celebrated by sacrificing 100 oxen. #factotron 12:26 AM Mar 11th, 2010 via Netvibes
  16. Honey-roast dormouse was a delicacy in ancient Rome. #factotron #twacts [Please RT] 6:58 AM Mar 10th, 2010 via Netvibes
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  18. The Great Wall of China is also known as the "Ten Thousand Li Wall", one Li is equal to 500 meters. The wall is over 1500 miles in length. 5:50 AM Mar 10th, 2010 via Netvibes
  19. In Mayan tradition, children were made cross-eyed by dangling objects in front of them until their eyes were permanently crossed! #factotron 5:48 AM Mar 10th, 2010 via Netvibes
  20. Ancient Egyptians mummified animals as well. #factotron #twacts [Please RT] 11:32 AM Mar 9th, 2010 via Netvibes