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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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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American car horns beep in the tone of F.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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