Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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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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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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