85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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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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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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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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