The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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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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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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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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