Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.

The world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches.

Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.

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