The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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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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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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