On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!
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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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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!
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