Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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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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Babies are born without knee caps.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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