The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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By peeing in the shower, you can save 1,157 gallons of water a year.
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The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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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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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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