You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
205
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
927
A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
72
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
37
An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
40
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.
240
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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