The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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