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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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!
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