Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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To get a song out of your head, try doing something like a puzzle or Sudoku.
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Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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