When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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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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Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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