By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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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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In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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