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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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
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