On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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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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Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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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 cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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