The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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