"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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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 glue on Israeli stamps is certified kosher.
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