Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
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If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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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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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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