Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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‘Qatar’ is the world's most expensive bar of soap. Infused with gold and diamond powder, it costs a squeaky clean $2,800.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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