There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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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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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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