The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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