The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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