There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
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‘Qatar’ is the world's most expensive bar of soap. Infused with gold and diamond powder, it costs a squeaky clean $2,800.
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The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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