Interesting Facts
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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Coins usually survive in circulation for about 30 years.
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American car horns beep in the tone of F.
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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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In Monopoly, the character locked behind the bars is called Jake the Jailbird. Officer Edgar Mallory sent him to jail.
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The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight days.
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Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.
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Tae Kwon Do is only around 60 years old.
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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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It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.
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One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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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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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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