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    The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!
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    There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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    "Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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    Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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    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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    Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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