SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.
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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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Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.
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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 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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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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