All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.
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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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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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According to the New York Times, a study conducted during the 1980's found that men who kiss their wives before leaving for work live longer, get into fewer car accidents, and have a higher income than married men who don't.
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The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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