If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
140
The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
157
Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.
175
Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
46
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
39
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.
14
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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