The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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There's a love mattress that is specifically designed for couples who sleep on each other's arms.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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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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