When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states!
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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