In the case of an emergency, a Crayola crayon can be used as a candle and will burn for about 15 minutes.
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The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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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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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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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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