30 years ago, you could buy a lifetime, unlimited first-class travel pass with American Airlines for $250,000.
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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 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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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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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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