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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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    The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.
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    Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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    A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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    If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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