The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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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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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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