14 Trivia Tidbits We’ve Been Fostering From The Time They Were Factoids, But It’s Time Now To Send Them Off Into The World As The Listicle They Were Always Destined To Become
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Well, well, well, it looks like Oklahoma couldn't make up its mind when it came to state symbols. On the one hand, they're all about that sweet, juicy goodness with watermelon being their official state vegetable. But then on the other hand, they've got a soft spot for strawberries, which they've deemed their official state fruit. And if you thought that was strange, wait until you hear about the closest U.S. state to Africa. Spoiler alert: it's not Florida. Nope, it's Maine, of all places! Doesn’t that shake your perception of all you know to be good and true!? And to top it all off, there's a character named Jessica in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice who not only has the same name as every girl born in the 90s but also happens to be the creator of her own name. Talk about a Renaissance woman! Read on to discover some more incredibly great and entertaining fun facts!
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Oh The Irony!
![CRACKED THE PATENT FOR THE FIRE HYDRANT WAS DESTROYED... ...in a fire.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/9/897689.jpg)
Dashing Through The Snow
![CRACKED THE LITTLE WHITE DASHES IN THE MIDDLE OF U.S. ROADS ARE 10 FEET LONG. While the space between them is 30 feet long.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/7/897687.jpg)
Interrupt Erupt
![CRACKED IN GUATEMALA, THERE IS A VOLCANO THAT ERUPTS EVERY HOUR. It started doing this 100 years ago and has yet to stop.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/8/897688.jpg)
Merchant of Valley Girls
![CRACKED THERE IS A CHARACTER NAMED JESSICA IN SHAKESPEARE'S MERCHANT OF VENICE. That character invented the name Jessica.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/5/897685.jpg)
Maine Route
![CRACKED Georgia United Kingdom Netherlands Slovakia Black.com Hungary Ireland Belgium Turkey Iraq France Greece Lebanon Italy United States Israel Tyrrhenian Sea Mediterranean Sea 3.332-32 ml Portugal Spain Egypt 2,000. 00 ml Tunésia Red Libya 0 Sur North Algeria Gult of Atlantic Mexico Ocean Chad Niger Western Sahara Cuba Centr uatemala Mal Africa Mauritania Honduras Repub Dominican Republic Nigeria Nicaragua Burkina Puerto Rios DR Con Faso Caribbean Sea Costa Rica Senegal Togo Equatorial The Gambia Ghana Guinea Panama Guinea Sierra Leone Liberia Angola Venezuela Calamlin THE CLOSEST U.S. STATE TO AFRICA IS MAINE. A small Maine peninsula is far east enough to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/4/897684.jpg)
Oklahoma The Home Of Intelligence
![CRACKED OKLAHOMA'S OFFICIAL STATE VEGETABLE IS THE WATERMELON. Its state fruit is the strawberry.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/6/897686.jpg)
Cat Facts
![CRACKED IN 1975, A PHYSICS PAPER WAS PUBLISHED BY A CAT. His owner added the cat as a co-author when he realized he had typed we throughout the whole paper but was the only author.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/2/897682.jpg)
Phoney Boneys
![CRACKED CHILDREN ARE BORN WITH ABOUT 300 BONES, BUT ADULTS ONLY HAVE 206. This is because many of the bones in a baby's body fuse together as they grow and develop.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/9/897679.jpg)
Heartbreaker
![CRACKED 25 25 25 WOMEN'S HEARTS BEAT FASTER THAN MEN'S. On average, a woman's heart beats 8-10 times per minute faster than a man's. This is thought to be because women have smaller hearts that need to pump blood more efficiently.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/7/897677.jpg)
Well, That’s Terrifying.
![CRACKED BABIES CAN CRAWL ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER BIRTH. Newborn babies have a reflex called the stepping reflex, which causes them to move their legs as if they are taking steps. Although they cannot walk yet, they can crawl and even walk with some assistance.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/1/897681.jpg)
Science Girlie 2: Electric Boogaloo
![CRACKED THE FIRST PERSON TO WIN TWO NOBEL PRIZES WAS A WOMAN. Marie Curie, born in Poland in 1867, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her work on radioactivity, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/8/897678.jpg)
The Feminine Mustique
![CRACKED WOMEN HAVE A BETTER SENSE OF SMELL THAN MEN. Research has shown that women have a more sensitive olfactory system, which allows them to detect fainter odors and distinguish between similar scents more easily than men.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/0/897680.jpg)
Tasty Tots
![CRACKED CHILDREN HAVE MORE TASTE BUDS THAN ADULTS. On average, adults have about 10,000 taste buds, but children have around 30,000. This is why children can be more sensitive to strong flavors and spices than adults.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/6/897676.jpg)
Science Girlie
![CRACKED THE FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMER WAS A WOMAN. Ada Lovelace, born in 1815, is credited with writing the first algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine, making her the world's first computer programmer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/3/897683.jpg)