There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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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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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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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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