Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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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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On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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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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