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 full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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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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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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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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There's a love mattress that is specifically designed for couples who sleep on each other's arms.
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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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