Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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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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