Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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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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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
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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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