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- Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer
- Mr. Butts invented the game SCRABBLE. The game was originally called “Criss Cross Words.”
- Actress Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar nominated actress, with a record of 13 nominations
- In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper
- Enamel is hardest substance in the human body
- A leech has 32 brains
- Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
- In the late 1800’s, washing machines and butter churners were sometimes powered by dogs walking on treadmills.
