Fun Facts – 21 January 2015

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– There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet

– Duelling in Paraguay is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors

– When adjusted for inflation, John D Rockerfeller is the richest man in the history of the world.

– There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe

– Russia didn't consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. Before that it was considered a soft drink.

– A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

– There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the United States

– The woolly mammoth roamed the earth around the time the Egyptian pyramids were being built

– The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year 

– The average person walks the euivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime 

Courtesy of allthatisinteresting.com