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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 mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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If you flip a coin ten times, the odds against its coming up with the same side showing each time are 1,023 to 1.
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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!
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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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