The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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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 Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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