An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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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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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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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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