Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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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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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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