Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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A million dollars weighs about a metric ton. Hence the expression "a ton of money."
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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