The best diamonds are colored blue-white.
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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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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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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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Sudbury Valley School allows students to do whatever they want; no curriculum, tests, homework, or even classes unless requested. 82% of students get accepted to college, as opposed to the 63% national public school average.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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