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    The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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    Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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    85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
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    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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    You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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    If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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