In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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