It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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