The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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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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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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