- Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912.
- Sloths spend 75% of their lives asleep.
- Smallpox is also known as variola.
- Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
- Snooker originated in India.
- Snow White's coffin was made of glass.
- So far in the twentieth century, two objects have hit the earth's surface with enough force to destroy a medium size city. By pure luck both have landed in sparsely populated Siberia.
- Soap was originally made by boiling fat and adding lye to it.
- Soda water does not contain soda.
- Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
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