Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
10
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.
240
When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
130
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
39
The best diamonds are colored blue-white.
80
New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
42
It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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