The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
14
The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
13
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
In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
48
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
240
The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
66
In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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