Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
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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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Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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