The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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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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There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
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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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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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