"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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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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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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