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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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    There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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    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.
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    'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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    The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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    On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
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