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    The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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    The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight days.
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    There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.
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    The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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    NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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    Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"!
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