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    An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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    More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
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    The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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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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    Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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    If you're one in a million, there are about 7,234 people just like you.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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