If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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