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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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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62% of us pop our zits.
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If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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