Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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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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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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