An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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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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Oak trees can live 200 or more years.
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Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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