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    An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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    The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
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    A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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    Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    Mincome
    Mincome
    An experimental program in Canada in the 1970s gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen.
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    Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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    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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