The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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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 average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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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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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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