There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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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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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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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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