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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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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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.
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On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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