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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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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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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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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