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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The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight days.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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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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