When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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By peeing in the shower, you can save 1,157 gallons of water a year.
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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