In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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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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The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight days.
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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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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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You can start a fire with ice.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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