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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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    In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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    An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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    The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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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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    If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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