Researchers say that lining the toilet seat with paper is pretty much pointless
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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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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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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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