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Fun Facts About Magnets Some magnets are found naturally in the earth. Lodestones are natural magnets made from a substance called magnetite. Other magnets are made from magnetic materials like steel, iron, nickel and cobalt. Magnets can also be made from copper and aluminum. Magnets can be found in many common household items such as telephones, computers, stereos, refrigerators, TV’s and VCR’s. Over 80% of all households in the US have magnets on their refrigerator. Are you displaying your kids artwork on your fridge right now? Some farmers give their cows a magnet to swallow. This small magnet attracts nails and wire a cow accidentally eats. Without the magnets, the metal would pass through the cow’s stomach and damage the cow’s other organs. Breakfast cereal often contains iron. Some cereals contain enough iron that it’s pieces are attracted to a magnet. Did you know that you can easily turn common items like paperclips and iron nails into a temporary magnets? A temporary magnet ac...

  1 Mark Twain's birth and death coincide with Halley's Co met . Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known more popularly by his nom de plume,  Mark Twain , was born in 1835, the same year that Halley's Comet made its first appearance. The comet made a second appearance in 1910, the year that Twain died, and the author, according to the  New York Times , famously predicted that the two events would coincide. He's quoted as saying, "The Almighty has said, no doubt, 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together." 2 Stephen Hawking shares his birth and death dates with Galileo and Einstein, respectively. Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author  Stephen Hawking  was famously born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death, and died on what would have been Einstein's 139th birthday. That said, the far more confounding question of statistical improbability surrounding Hawking's life was the fact that he ...

Facebook Facts  47. Facebook accounts for approximately 21% of ALL social media referral traffic in the world.  46. If that weren’t enough, Facebook drives 23% of all traffic ACROSS THE ENTIRE INTERNET.  45. In any given month, approximately 1.28 BILLION people are active on Facebook – roughly equivalent to the entire population of India, the world’s second most-populous country. 44. 30% of Americans get all of their news exclusively from Facebook – sorry, the “paper of record.”  43. Almost one-quarter – 23% – of Facebook users check the site FIVE TIMES or more per day.  42. Only 25% of Facebook users bother to check or adjust their privacy settings.  41. The median number of friends the average Millennial Facebook user has in their network is 250.  40. 77% of B2C companies have acquired new customers through their Facebook presence.  39. While approximately 55% of SMBs have a Facebook page, only one-fifth have invested any money in Facebook adver...