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    Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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    On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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    Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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    If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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    The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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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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