More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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Anuptaphobia is the fear of staying single.
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