A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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You can start a fire with ice.
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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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