Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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Anuptaphobia is the fear of staying single.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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