A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
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