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    The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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    In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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    On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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    There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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    In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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    The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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