A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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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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