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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The higher someone’s I.Q. the more likely they are to be sleep deprived.
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The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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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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