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  1. A duel between three people is called a truel.

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  2. prije 7 sati

    The USB icon was drawn to resemble Neptune’s Trident, the Dreizack. Neptune's trident symbolizes power, and, similarly, the USB symbolizes the "power" of a single connector for multiple devices.

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    More than 17 million workers are expected to call in sick on Monday, the after the Super Bowl.

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    Americans eat approximately 1.25 billion chicken wings on Super Bowl weekend.

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    The huddle was invented by Paul Hubbard, who was a legally deaf quarterback from Gallaudet University. He “huddled” other players together so he could hear them better and to protect them from the other teams’ prying eyes.

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    A cow has only a 1 in 17, 420, 000 chance of becoming an NFL football that is used in the Super Bowl. Which is roughly the same as the odds that a person will be diagnosed with the plague in a given year.

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    The # symbol isn’t officially called a hashtag or a pound. Its technically called an "octothorpe." The “octo-” means “eight” to refer to its points.

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    Happy February 1st! The word "February" is from the Latin term "februum," which means purification. In mid-February, the ancient Romans held feast of purification during which a priest struck spectators with a kind of leather whip they called "februare."

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  9. 30. sij

    By slowing their heart rates, sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. Dolphins need to come up for air after about ten minutes.

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  10. 30. sij

    The US Constitution does not specify the number of justices that make up the Supreme Court. The number varied until the U.S. Congress finally settled on nine in 1869.

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  11. 29. sij

    J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter share the same birthday: July 31st.

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  12. 29. sij

    Riding or sitting on a sea turtle in the United States is a 3rd degree felony. A woman in Florida was arrested for harassing a sea turtle after an image of her sitting on one appeared on Snapchat.

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  13. 28. sij

    Every Chinese New Year, over one billion people board planes, trains, boats, buses, and cars. Known as "Chunyan," it is the world’s largest annual human migration.

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  14. 28. sij

    Happy ! According to the LEGO Group, the word “LEGO” is not a noun; rather it is an adjective, as in LEGO bricks, LEGO products, LEGO universe, etc.

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    This is the coolest Uber ride available. From wild. Recieved as a forward.

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  16. 27. sij

    More people died at Auschwitz than the combined British and American losses during WWII.

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  17. 25. sij

    During the first season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Patrick Stewart had a sign over his door that read: “Beware of Unknown Shakespearean Actor.”

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  18. 25. sij

    The stripes of the forehead of a tiger can look like the Chinese character, Wang, (王), which means "king."

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  19. 24. sij

    In ancient Greece, the word for "cook" and "priest," was the same: "mageiros," which shares its etymological root with the word "magic."

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  20. 23. sij

    Ancient pagan cultures, such as the Celts, believed that benevolent and helpful spirits lived in trees. They believed that knocking on tree trunks roused a spirit for protection, which led to the phrase "knock on wood."

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