More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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GTA V achieved $1 billion in sales just 3 days after its launch.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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