When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
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