It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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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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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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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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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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