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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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth!
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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62% of us pop our zits.
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20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
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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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The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!
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