Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
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