If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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The higher someone’s I.Q. the more likely they are to be sleep deprived.
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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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