The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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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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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
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