If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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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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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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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
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