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    There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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    The song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', sung by the Beatles, refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool.
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    The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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    The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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    Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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    The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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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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    Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"!
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