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Here are some things you may or may not know. Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts. Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%. Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children. As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet. Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world. A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off. The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms. Men can breastfeed babies. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet. Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e." There are 333 toilet paper squares on a toilet paper roll. On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day. More to come later. I hope you enjoyed this.. I know I did. Now don't you feel smarter? :)