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    More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
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    The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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    The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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    In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
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    Research has found that you're more likely to have a creative epiphany when you're doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering.
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    In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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    NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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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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