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  • Smurfs are Belgian
  • The smurf comics were created after a misunderstanding over salt
  • Smurfs are said to be “three apples tall”
  • The smurf franchise generates about $10 million in royalties annually and are worth about $4 billion
  • Smurfette was created by Gargamel and was originally a brunette
  • Smurfs were the first to introduce the zombie movie theme to the world in the episode “The purple smurfs”. This was 6 years before ‘The night of the living dead’
  • A petrol station in the US once had the slogan ‘service with a smurf’
  • Their creator Peyo, doesn’t like Smurfette
  • The book that Brainy smurf was always writing is called ‘Quotations by Brainy Smurf’
  • There are a total of 103 smurfs
  • Smurfs were once linked to Communism, Ku Klux Klan and even Neo Nazisim. All of which are untrue
  • Smurfs turn purple when they hold their breath
  • The world record for the most people dressed as smurfs happend in Swansea in 2009
  • A lot of smurfs from the comics never made it to the cartoon;  Timid Smurf, Enamored Smurf, Finance Smurf

electrical information facts
  • By 2010, electronically stored information was estimated at 1.2 billion terabytes (by IDC)
  • If these information were stored on CDs, the stack would reach the moon and back.
  • Our digital world grew by 2/3 in 2010 alone
  • An estimated 15 per cent of that information would be stored in an internet cloud system

London Underground Network facts
  • The total length of the London Underground Network is 402km (249 miles)

race facts
  • A German anthropologist once divided the human race into five groups based on their skull shape: Caucasians, Malayans, Mongolians, Ethiopian and American

Antartica facts
  • Penguins only live in Antartica (South) and not in the Artic (North).
  • Australia’s Mawson station is the oldest building in the Antartic
  • 1 or 2 priests live in Antartica, in an Orthodox Church at the Russian station
  • The first person born in Antartica was an Argentinian
  • The South pole is colder than the North Pole
  • Over 7 countries want to claim Antartica territorially

aluminium facts
  • A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days.
  • Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours
  • An aluminium can will outlive over 10 generations
  • We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
  • At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold
  • In a year, recycling steel saves enough energy to light up 18,000,000 homes

New York Times facts
  • New York Times had the telephone number 1111111111
  • 75,000 trees are cut down each week to print the Sunday edition of the New York Times

recycling facts
  • Recycling one aluminium can will generate enough energy to power a television for 3 hours

computer virus facts
  • The world’s first computer virus came from Pakistan. It was called Brain
  • A computer virus Struxnet was powerful enough to take down a nuclear facility

tuna can facts
  • If all the people in the world were a grain of sand, we could all fit into a can of tuna
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