There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely you are to fall asleep.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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