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    20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
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    In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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    The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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    Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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