The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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