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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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
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