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12 Amazing Facts To Impress Down The Pub

Life goal: to never be stuck for an eyebrow-raiser again. Nothing impresses like knowledge, as The Open University knows.

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2. It's a mystery how gravity works.

3. Albert Einstein's eyes are in a safe deposit box somewhere in New York.

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5. Woolly mammoths were still around when the pyramids were built.

Though most mammoths died out 10,000 years ago, a colony continued to live on an Arctic island until 1650 BC, when the pyramids were already ancient.

6. A 2008 poll showed 58% of UK teenagers thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person.

7. Oh, and 20 percent thought Winston Churchill was a fictional character.

8. Mark Twain was on the first train to roll down London's Central line in 1900.

9. Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the scientific name for:

10. Crows are insanely clever.

11. Michael J. Fox's middle name is actually ANDREW.

12. Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert fell off a train platform in 1864, but was saved by stage actor Edwin Booth. Less than a year later, Edwin's brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln.

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