Interesting Facts
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.
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GTA V achieved $1 billion in sales just 3 days after its launch.
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Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
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It's impossible to sink in the Dead Sea without equipment!
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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In Finland, Valentine's Day is called "Ystävänpäivä" which translates into "Friend's day".
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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Water is actually naturally blue.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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