- A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - African Baobab tree's circumference can reach 180 feet. If the trunk is hollow, 20 people would be able to fit inside of it.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Australia has had stamps that actually look like gems. In 1995 and 1996 they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamonds and opals.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Diamonds were first discovered in the riverbeds of the Golconda region of India over 4,000 years ago.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Enough paper is recycled in the USA every day, that a 15 mile long train of boxcars could be filled up with paper.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.
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