If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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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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Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"!
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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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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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