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Barbie® doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

She is from (fictional) Willows, Wisconsin where she attended High School.

Barbie® doll’s official birthday is March 9, 1959 – the exact date she was unveiled to the toy industry during New York Toy Fair.

The first Barbie doll was sold for $3.00.

The best-selling Barbie® doll ever was 1992 Totally Hair™ doll, with hair from the top of her head to her toes.

Barbie® doll has had 180+ inspirational careers

Every year since 2011, Barbie® doll has introduced a career that has been under represented by women – some of those careers include computer engineer, architect, entrepreneur and film director

Today, a mint condition “#1” (1959 Barbie doll) can fetch as much as $27,450 at auction, as was the case with an extremely rare #1 blonde doll in a May 2006 auction held by Sandi’s Doll Attic.

The most expensive Barbie, however, was designed in partnership with Australian jewelry designer Stefano Canturi to raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The doll sold for $302,500 at auction in 2010.

The Barbie collecting craze really took off in the 1990s, thanks to the advent of eBay and the introduction of designer Barbie dolls, including the Bob Mackie Gold Barbie, which featured 5,000 hand-sewn golden sequin accents.

Barbie® first broke through the plastic ceiling as a business executive in 1985

Barbie® traveled into space in 1965, four years before man walked on the moon

Although she has never won an election, Barbie® has run for president 6 times since 1992.

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Ken's full name is Ken Carson.

Ken is named after the son of Mattel founders Ruth and Elliott Handler.

Ken is a Pisces — his “official birthday” is March 11, 1961.

Ken is two years and two days younger than Barbie.

Ken is from (fictional) Willows, Wisconsin.

Ken stands 12” tall, 1⁄2” taller than Barbie.

In 1961, a Ken doll sold for $3.50.

The first Ken doll wore red swim trunks, sported cork sandals and carried a yellow towel.

In 1961, two versions of Ken doll were launched with “molded” plastic hair — blond and brunette.

In 1973, Ken debuted a new “real” rooted hairstyle.

Ken has a younger brother, Tommy.

Ken’s best friend is Alan, the husband of Midge.

Ken met Barbie on the set of their first television commercial together in 1961.

Barbie and Ken broke up on Valentine’s Day in 2004.

Ken received a makeover by celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch in 2006.

In Summer 2010, Ken made his big screen debut in Toy Story 3, which included more than 50 costume changes.

Ken and Barbie rekindled their epic romance on Valentine’s Day, 2011 and are still a couple today.

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Lava is magma that has erupted above the planet’s surface. The most common variety of molten rock, either above ground or below, is basalt.

Be glad other types of lava aren’t as common. Both andesitic and rhyolitic magma have higher gas content and erupt much more explosively than basaltic.

The supervolcano beneath Yellowstone has rhyolitic magma, which tends to erupt catastrophically. Some good news: Geophysicists put the chance of it blowing in any given year at 1 in 700,000.

Some bad news: In 2015 researchers discovered Yellowstone has even more magma than we thought. Beneath the previously known magma chamber, there’s a second, larger reservoir with enough hot goo to fill the Grand Canyon 11.2 times.

Lava wasn’t called lava until Mount Vesuvius erupted in 1737. Francesco Serao used the word, derived from labes (“fall” or “slide” in Latin), to compare the hot ooze on the volcano’s slopes to mudslides after a heavy rain.

One kind of lava you really don’t want to deal with is corium lava. During a nuclear meltdown, uranium dioxide fuel, fuel rod components and even the reactor become superheated — as much as 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit — and melt together to form corium, which can eat through containment systems.

Our solar system’s largest volcano, Mars’ Olympus Mons, is composed of layers of ancient eruptions of basaltic lava. At about three times the height of Mount Everest, that’s a lot of lava.

Jupiter’s moon Io continues to spew massive fountains of hot lava. In August 2013, during a two-week period of intense activity, curtains of lava gushed from fissures hundreds of miles long.

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Most egg production in the USA is from battery hens. Only a couple of states have banned them.

Americans love white eggs, British love brown eggs. There’s no other difference aside from color.

Most commercial laying hens in the entire world come from one of three genetics companies.

Hens begin laying eggs around 18 weeks of age, become highly productive around 25-39 weeks, then start to decline significantly around 72 weeks. This is often when they are slaughtered.

Eggs are used to make flu vaccines.

Ex-laying hens, at the end of life are known as ‘spent hens’ or ‘boiling fowl’. They have a stronger flavor, firmer meat and require extended cooking. They are also much, much cheaper than normal birds.

Some people lie about buying higher welfare eggs. The percentage of people who say they buy free-range exceeds the percentage of free-range eggs sold. This is known as the ‘consumer attitude-behavior gap’.

As hens get older, the eggs get bigger.

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“Vagina” comes from the Latin root meaning “sheath for a sword.”

There are 8,000 nerve endings in the clitoris, while the penis only has 4,000. This is why the tiny area is considered to be the most sensitive part of a woman’s erogenous zone. Powerful sensations can spread across a woman’s pelvic area by affecting 15,000 other nerve endings.

Vaginas are lined with ringed muscular ridges. This helps it expand when necessary, such as during intercourse or childbirth. They expand up to 200 percent during intercourse or childbirth.

Believe it or not, the first movie to use the word “vagina“ on film was Disney’s “The Story of Menstruation,” released in 1946.

Vaginas and sharks have something in common. They both contain the substance squalene. This exists in shark livers and is a natural vaginal lubricant.

In 2009, a woman reportedly set the vagina weightlifting record by lifting over 30 pounds. She attached the weight to a wooden egg so her muscles could grab onto it.

Vaginas are also strong enough to clamp down on penises. This is known as penis captivus. It is a rare occurrence in intercourse when the muscles in the vagina clamp down with intensity on the penis, which makes it impossible for the penis to withdraw from the vagina.

It’s impossible to lose anything in your vagina. The opening of the uterus is too small for anything to go through it, unless you’re giving birth, of course. Before puberty, the uterus is about 3.5 centimeters (cm) in length with an average thickness of 1 cm. After puberty, its normal length is about 7.6 cm, and width is 4.5 cm, with a normal thickness of 3.0 cm.

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