The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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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.
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It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.
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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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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
58
It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth!
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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.
57
The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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