It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
16
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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