It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
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SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.
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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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