Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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If you're one in a million, there are about 7,234 people just like you.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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