AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING XI

1. The Canary Islands are so named after the Latin Insulas Canarias - Island of the Dogs - a reference to the wild dogs the Romans found there.

2. Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.

3. Los Angeles is farther east than Reno, Nevada.

4. There are more Italians in New York City than in Rome. The same is true of the Irish in Dublin, and Jews in Tel Aviv.

5. For every 86 individual children, one set of twins is born. For every 86 sets of twins, one set of triplets is born. And for every 86 sets of triplets, one set of quadruplets is born.

6. The only fictional character in TIME's list of the 100 most important people of the century is Bart Simpson.

7. According to the Airlines Reporting Corporation, the cheapest time to buy a plane ticket is on a Sunday, 57 days before departure.

8. According to a 2013 MIT study, the hardest tongue twister in the English language is:
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