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    In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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    'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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    Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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    Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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    A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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    Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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    There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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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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