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Did you know that you consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a stamp?

Another reason to purchase stamps that you don't have to lick. I don't need any extra calories.

Did you know that Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code on it?

Gjetost is the national cheese of Norway, and its name means "goat" and "cheese," though it is now commonly made of cow's milk.

Did you know that the world's longest game of monopoly lasted for 660 hours?

It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web.

Did you know that the cigarette lighter was invented before the match?

Of all strange customs, one of the more unusual was that of the "groaning cheese." Years ago in Europe, a prospective father would nibble on a huge chunk of cheese while awaiting the home birth of his child. Instead of pacing outside the bedroom door, the father would eat from the center of the cheese until a large hole had been gnawed out. Later, his newborn infant was ceremoniously passed through the hole.