In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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To get a song out of your head, try doing something like a puzzle or Sudoku.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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