The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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