The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.
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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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