Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
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