Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
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More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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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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The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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