Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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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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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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You can immediately cool down a car that has been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.
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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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