NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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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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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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It's impossible to sink in the Dead Sea without equipment!
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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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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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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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