Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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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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American car horns beep in the tone of F.
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