Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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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 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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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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