Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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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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If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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