Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
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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.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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