You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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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.
13
The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
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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 Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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