If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
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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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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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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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