The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
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Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
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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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In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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