The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
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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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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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