Interesting facts #276

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The first baseball caps were made of straw. (On September 23, 1845, Alexander Cartwright (the gentleman in the top middle of the photo) formed a the first baseball club made up of merchants, brokers, salesmen. They were the New York Knickerbockers.)

An adult giraffe’s tongue is 17 inches long.

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too. (Hope they did not lie…)

All of the Earth’s continents are wider at the north than in the south – and nobody knows why.

The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut.

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