If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
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The scent of women’s tears temporarily reduces sexual arousal and testosterone production in men.
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There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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