A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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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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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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