- Cotton crops can be sprayed up to 40 times a year making it the most chemical-intensive crop in the world.
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- High Priests in ancient Egypt were the only ones who were allowed to wear garments made from cotton.
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- The word Cotton originates from the Arabic word "Qutun."
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- Nylon is a man-made fibre that is made from coal and petroleum.
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- Teflon was accidently discovered by scientist Dr. Roy Plunkett while he was conducting a coolant gas experiment in 1938.
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- Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance.
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- It was during World War II that clothes with elastic waists were introduced. This is because the metal used in zippers was badly needed for the war.
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- The reason why the Mexican sombrero hat is so wide is to provide shade for the entire body.
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- Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear.
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- There are over 200 parts in a typical telephone.
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- In the early 1900's, a telephone man used to ride around with a telephones strapped to his back and chest and would make house calls.
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- Since 1950, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold.
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- The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build."
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- The ballpoint pen was first introduced to the United States in October of 1945. It was introduced in New York's Gimbels Department Store, and the whole stock of 10,000 pens was sold out the first day for $12.50 each.
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- Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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- Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste, is made from recycled tin.
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- Play-Doh was introduced in 1956 by Hasbro Inc. The only color availabe was an off white, and it came in one size which a one and a half pound can.
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- In 1981, the ultimate collectable item was a Rubik's Cube which had a pictures of Prince Charles and Princess Diana on it.
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- The best selling Crayola crayon box is the set of 24 crayons.
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- The most popular place to burn candles in the house is the living room.
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- The Food and Drug Administration says the most common injury from cosmetics comes from scratching the eye with a mascara wand.
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- Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
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- The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance.
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- When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers.
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- Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee.
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