Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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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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Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states!
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