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By the time the guillotine was abolished in France, “Star Wars Episode IV” had already been released.
 
Excommunication literally means “out of communion.” An excommunicated person, therefore, is deprived of or forbidden to fully receive the Holy Communion. What excommunication doesn’t mean is that an excommunicated person is expelled from the Roman Catholic Church. You will remain a Catholic but you will not be able to receive the Communion anymore.
 
Heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday.
Okay this isn’t exactly a fun fact, but it is interesting! Heart attacks are increased by 20% on Monday’s.
The most common time for them to happen is between 4-10 a.m.
 
Your body’s longest soma cells are over a meter long; they are the nerve cells joining your spinal cord to your toes.
 
Physician and clinical services expenditures grew 4.1% to $725.6 billion in 2018, a slower growth than the 4.7% in 2017.
 
Prescription drug spending increased 2.5% to $335.0 billion in 2018, faster than the 1.4% growth in 2017.
 
Rising health care costs. Death by sleep deprivation. Some of these facts are not so fun! 🙁

The fastest man-made object (so far) is the Parker Solar Probe, which in its close orbit around the sun recently reached a top speed of about 109 km/s (about 240,000 miles per hour).

Over the next 5 years, its orbit will be trimmed to go closer to the sun and faster. If all goes well, the probe should set new speed records up to about 192 km/s (430,000 miles/hour).

That’s pretty fast, but it’s only about 0.00064 times the speed of light.
 
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German chocolate cake was named for Sam German, who developed a sweet bar for Baker’s Chocolate–and was not from Germany.
 
Regis Philbin, Martin Scorsese, and George Carlin attended Cardinal Hayes High School in The Bronx in New York City.
 
Tennis players are not allowed to swear when they are playing in Wimbledon.

Because of this, line judges have to learn curse words in every language so they know when a player has violated the rules.
 
In 2017 more people were killed from injuries caused by taking a selfie than by shark attacks.

There was only 5 deaths due to shark attacks in 2017, which is lower than the average year.

The average amount of deaths caused by sharks is 6.

Worldwide, there was 35 deaths caused by taking selfies in 2017.
 
The DNA double helix in our soma cells, is as narrow as a large atom; however, when unrolled, it is a meter long.
 
Brown rice contains more arsenic than white rice, and rice absorbs more arsenic from water and soil than other common food crops.
 
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