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1/1/22	Every winter, at least one septillion (that’s 1 followed by 24 zeros) snow crystals fall from the sky. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/2/22	While the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, seasonal lag means that the coldest period usually follows the solstice by a few weeks. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/3/22	Even though Ireland is the birthplace of Guinness beer, Britain is the number one consumer of the beverage, Nigeria is second, and Ireland is third. An estimated 40% of all Guinness beer is sold in Africa. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/4/22	According to legend, Buddha was born in Nepal under a full moon in a beautiful garden; the sky rained flower petals and the earth shook. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/5/22	The Mozilla Firefox logo is not a fox; it's actually a red panda. One of the red panda's nicknames is the red fox.
1/6/22	Lightning strikes the earth over 8.6 million times per day. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/7/22	The Zapotec civilization (600 B.C.-A.D. 800) established great cities along southern Mexico and developed the first writing system in the Americas. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/8/22	The world’s most unusual shark, the megamouth (Megachasma pelagios), wasn’t discovered until 1976. Its mouth can reach up to three feet across, while the rest of the body is about 16 feet long. Only 14 megamouths have ever been seen. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/9/22	In 1945, the US military built the first floating ice cream parlor for the sailors serving in the Pacific during WWII. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/10/22	It is thought that Da Vinci kept the Mona Lisa with him for more than decade and kept working on it up until his death. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/11/22	Jupiter closely resembles a star: it's made up of mostly helium and hydrogen. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/12/22	Iceland uses 100% renewable electricity, making it the “greenest” country in the world. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/13/22	Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, on the North Slope of the Brooks Range, is the site of the most significant oil U.S. discovery in 1968 (15 billion barrels). Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/14/22	Often called the “Red City,” Marrakech, Morocco, requires sun protection and headgear of some kind all year-round, even during winter. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/15/22	Scientists believe that the mind forgets in order to avoid information overload, to think more quickly, assimilate new information easier, and to avoid emotional hangovers. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/16/22	In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with an official bib. She entered under the name K. V. Switzer so officials would not automatically identify her as a female. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/17/22	Mountaineering rose in popularity after World War II because of the special training and equipment developed by European armies for traversing the Alps in wartime. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/18/22	Laura Scudder created the first modern bag of potato chips in 1953. Previously, they were sold out of wooden barrels or scooped from behind glass counters. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/19/22	An owl's eyes account for 1-5% percent of the owl's body weight. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/20/22	Myrtle Siler, the first female sheriff in the United States, was elected in 1920 in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/21/22	The only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak is the kiwi. This placement helps it sniff for food, such as worms and insects on the ground. It often snorts to clear its nostrils. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/22/22	Horseshoe crabs are not crabs at all. They are not even crustaceans. Instead, they have their own separate class named Merostomata. They have hardly changed since the age of the dinosaurs, and their closest-living relatives are spiders. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/23/22	The first Hollywood stunt man was ex-U.S. cavalryman Frank Hanaway who was cast in The Great Train Robbery (1903) for his ability to fall off a horse without hurting himself. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/24/22	Older people lack the ability to hear sounds at high frequencies; most people over the age of 65 cannot hear any sounds with frequencies over 10,000 cycles per second. A healthy young adult can hear frequencies of up to 20,000 cycles per second. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/25/22	The Titanic's lookouts, Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee, didn't have binoculars. They were locked in a cabinet with no key. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/26/22	Statues of the Buddha often show him with half closed eyes, which is meant to show a state of meditation and, moreover, a state of indifference to the material world.
1/27/22	The force inside a woman’s uterus during a contraction is 397 pounds of pressure per square foot. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/28/22	In order to ship the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States, she was separated into 350 different pieces and rebuilt over four months after arriving in the states. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/29/22	Astronomers believe that Neptune's core may be as hot as the surface of the sun. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/30/22	"Pound Cake" is so named because the original pound cake contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. In the days when many people could not read, this simple recipe was easy to remember. Provided by FactRetriever.com
1/31/22	Jupiter is one of the five planets that is visible to the naked eye from Earth. The other four planets are Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Saturn. Provided by FactRetriever.com

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