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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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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There are no rental cars in Bermuda.
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The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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