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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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
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The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
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