The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
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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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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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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.
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Water is actually naturally blue.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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