During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
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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 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a quiet place and cover them tightly.
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