An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
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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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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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