The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
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