The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
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An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
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A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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