A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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Anuptaphobia is the fear of staying single.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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