Random Interesting Facts

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    If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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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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    Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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    The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    Bad At Maths? You Could Have Math Anxiety
    People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.
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    Wrap rage is an actual condition when you feel extreme levels of anger and frustration because you are unable to open product packaging.
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    Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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