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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.
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U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
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20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
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68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
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80% of millionaires drive used cars.
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85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
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A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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