You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
205
The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
78
Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
18
NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
8
Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
14
When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
85