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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Broccoli is ‘man-made’ through the breeding of different cabbage crops.
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Tabasco sauce is aged in barrels previously used for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey.
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Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.
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The U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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