The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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According to the New York Times, a study conducted during the 1980's found that men who kiss their wives before leaving for work live longer, get into fewer car accidents, and have a higher income than married men who don't.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The largest hotel suite in the world is located 22 stories under the surface in the Grand Canyon Caverns. One night for two people in this 65 million year old cave is $700.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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