The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
14
The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
13
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
67
In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
16
People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
268
Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
10
22% leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.
118