The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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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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62% of us pop our zits.
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It's impossible to sink in the Dead Sea without equipment!
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
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People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
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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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