A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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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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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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Studies show that the colder the room you sleep in, the more likely you are to have a bad dream.
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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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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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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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