The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
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The best diamonds are colored blue-white.
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
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Since 1982, a radio frequency emanating from Russia has been broadcasting a buzzer-like sound and, periodically, an unknown voice reads orders, names, and numbers. No one knows where exactly it is coming from or what it means.
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