"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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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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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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It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
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According to an assistant professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, wearing red increases your chances in things like dating and hitchhiking.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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