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    The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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    In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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    The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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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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    NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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    Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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