Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
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More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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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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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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