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    It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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    At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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    Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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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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    "Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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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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