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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An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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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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There are no rental cars in Bermuda.
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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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