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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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
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