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    When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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    You can start a fire with ice.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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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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    The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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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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