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    In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
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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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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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    The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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    There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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    Water is actually naturally blue.
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    We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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