Interesting Facts
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The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles per hour.
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Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
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Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
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The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
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