The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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