The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
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The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
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The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.
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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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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
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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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