The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
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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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More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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