The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.
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The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles per hour.
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The hole in the soda can tab is actually used to hold a straw in place and stop it from rising.
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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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