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12 Facts About Green Beans - Facts.net Discover 12 fascinating facts about green beans and unlock their nutritional and culinary benefits. From history to recipes, this article has it all!

11 Lipton Tea Nutrition Facts - Facts.net Get the facts on one of the world's most beloved beverages. Explore Lipton tea nutrition, health benefits, varieties and more to discover how it can enhance your daily wellness routine.

Broadway Is Ruled by a Hip-hop Musical about a Former Treasury Secretary

Admit it, when you heard there was a hit musical that combined rapping and our country's Founding Fathers—specifically Alexander Hamilton—wasn't there a part of you that thought, "Does it star Troy McClure?" (Also, you should see how Hamilton's creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, describes the woman of his dreams.)

Megyn Kelly is the Face of… NBC News

If a person's journalism career begins on Fox News, where she argues that Santa Claus is white and the pepper spray used by cops is just a harmless "food product," you can excuse us for not thinking she's the next Diane Sawyer. But that's what happened to Megyn Kelly, who is now a full-time employee for NBC News, a network whose chairman called her "an exceptional journalist."

Poet-God Bob Dylan Plagiarizes Sparknotes.

Bob Dylan, the man who wrote "Blowin in the Wind" and "Visions of Johanna" and hundreds of other music masterpieces, apparently didn't have the time or inspiration to write his own Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance lecture, so he used Sparknotes, a kind of online CliffNotes usually reserved for lazy college students who can't be bothered to read a book. Dylan got caught quoting lines from Moby-Dick that weren't actually in the novel, other than the Sparknotes summary. Which technically doesn't mean he plagiarized, he's just crummy at pretending to read books. It's like finding out Dan Rather doesn't know anything about what's happening in the world other than what he's skimmed on Wikipedia.

The Chicago Cubs Are Reigning World Series champs

Yep, this is an actual thing that actually happened after 108-year drought, and it still gives us all the feels. Just bringing up the memory makes us start acting like this guy.

30 Amazing Facts About Pigeon | Amazing Facts 4U 30 Amazing and Interesting Facts about Pigeon - 1.) The word ‘pigeon’ comes from the Latin word ‘pipio’, meaning ‘young bird’. The word then passed into Old French...

Hair and nails grow faster during pregnancy.

A surprising side effect of pregnancy is that nails and hair grow faster than usual. This is due to changes in hormones as well as increased blood circulation and metabolism supplying nutrients. According to Amy O'Connor, writing for What to Expect, a pregnant person's hair also "might feel thicker and look more shiny and healthy than usual." Though she warns that it can occasionally mean that the expecting "may suddenly sprout strands in places [they'd] rather not." If you want to question everything you know, check out 50 Well-Known "Facts" That Are Actually Just Common Myths.

"New car smell" is the scent of dozens of chemicals.

Few odors are as pleasing as "new car smell"—and not just because it's nice to be in a brand new car. But while the scent may be strangely satisfying, the fact is that it's pretty much just a combination of 50+ chemicals (known as "volatile organic compounds") that are released into the car, decaying quickly over time. The concentrations found in a typical new car aren't dangerous, but among the VOCs that make up much of that new car smell are those found in nail polish, auto fuel, and petroleum.

The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.

According to Guinness World Records, the first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz—but since the speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today's standards. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s and earning Arnold the speedy distinction. For more trivia to impress, here are 40 Random Obscure Facts That Will Make Everyone Think You're a Genius.

A narwhal's tusk reveals its past living conditions.

Much like the rings of a tree can tell you its age and provide clues about the life it has lived, so too does the long tusk of the narwhal. Recent research led by a bioscience professor at Denmark's Aarhus University has shown that this peculiar arctic whale adds a layer to its distinctive tusk each year. And not only do these layers offer insight into the age of the narwhal (they've been known to live up to 50 years) but the conditions in which they lived—such as level of pollution, temperature levels, and even what their diet consisted of. You are what you eat!

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Galileo sent two coded message to Keppler, that Saturn has rings, and that Venus has phases (circles the sun, not the earth), which Keppler incorrectly decoded as Mars has two moons and Jupiter has a big red spot. Although not what Galileo had written, both would later be proven true.