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•  Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels

•  In 2006, heart disease death rates were highest in Mississippi and lowest in Minnesota.[Heart Disease]

•  The Earth is about 400 times the Moon's distance from the Sun, and the diameter is about 400 times larger than the Moon's. This makes it look like the Sun and the Moon are about the same size, so when the Moon passes in front of the Sun, it blocks the light.[Solar Eclipse]

•  One reason Columbus estimated the distance around the Earth shorter than other navigators is that he had read Arab maps. As he read the maps, he used a shorter distance for a mile than the Arab map makers had used, causing him to estimate the circumference as being one-fourth less than the actual number of miles. Additionally, Marco Polo’s book, which Columbus relied on, estimated China as much larger than it really was, which also shrank the distance from Europe to Asia.[Christopher Columbus]

•  Guglielmo Marconi did not invent radio, but he was the first to invent a radio transmitter. When he could not find a buyer in Italy, he turned to England, his mother’s country, and on July 27, 1896, he gave the first-ever public demonstration of a radio. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 and on July 21, 1937, the day of his funeral, radio transmitters went silent for two minutes in tribute.[United Kingdom]

•  There are over 4 hundred billion Lego bricks in the world. Stacked together, they would be 2,386,065 miles tall, which is ten times higher than the moon.[LEGO]

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