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    Tae Kwon Do is only around 60 years old.
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    There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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    Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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    The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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    A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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    Water is actually naturally blue.
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