In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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