Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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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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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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