At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.
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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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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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