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    Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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    65-Year-Old Bottled Plant
    65-Year-Old Bottled Plant
    There's a plant that has survived in a sealed bottle for over 65 years. It was watered just once in 55 years.
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    Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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    There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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    It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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    Invention of the Microwave
    Invention of the Microwave
    The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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    WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
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    Sudbury Valley School allows students to do whatever they want; no curriculum, tests, homework, or even classes unless requested. 82% of students get accepted to college, as opposed to the 63% national public school average.
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