Top Ten Facts About Minecraft

The Top Ten
1 Minecraft was originally called "Cave Game."

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2 The Creeper is based on a pig model gone horribly wrong

The height and length parameters were accidentally reversed to make it tall and narrow instead of short and fat.

3 The Enderman sounds are actually audio or words reversed and distorted
4 Minecraft gives Microsoft access to a motivated and diverse user community
5 It's easier to catch fish when it's raining
6 Ghast can't blow up cobblestone
7 17,076,695 people have bought the PC/Mac version of Minecraft
8 If fire kills pig/chicken/cow, it will drop cooked porkchop/chicken/steak
9 A block called crying obsidian was originally intended to serve as a spawn point, but was replaced by beds

This one is interesting

10 Endermen were called Farlanders before the End was created
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11 Gears were supposed to be in Minecraft
12 It takes 30,000,000 blocks to get to the end of the surface.
13 Diamond tools have 1,562 uses
14 Every single mob can ride in a Minecart
15 End stone is an inverted colored cobblestone
16 Hyperlinks in the chat
17 Pumpkins are a lot harder to find than diamonds
18 Pistons can't push chests around
19 Creeper's explosion size differs if it's struck by lightning
20 Mobs have different hit boxes
21 Minecraft has a new gamemode called Spectator Mode
22 Pocket Edition now has the Nether
23 1 block in the Nether equals 8 blocks in the Overworld in the PC, Mac and Pocket Editions of Minecraft.
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