Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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"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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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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