"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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