The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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