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Safety First!

Ah, yes. Famously, parents love to think of their infant babies holding a sharp, dangerous blade. Not sure if "safety razor" quite makes the cut, here.

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The More You Know

  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • Only two national flags have the color purple on them.
  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
  • The world's largest falafel weighed 223 pounds.
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