There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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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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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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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 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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