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    The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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    If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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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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    The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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    ‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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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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    People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
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    The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight days.
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