The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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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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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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