When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
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85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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