Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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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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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
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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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