Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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The top sales at Walmart as a storm approaches are Pop-Tarts and beer.
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The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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