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    The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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    The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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    Cuddle Mattress
    Cuddle Mattress
    There is a bed called the Cuddle Mattress that it is divided into layers of foam for your arm to slip though.
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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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    Stud Poker
    Stud Poker
    "Stud Poker" got its name when a drunk Civil War vet gambled a horse.
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    Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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    Mincome
    Mincome
    An experimental program in Canada in the 1970s gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen.
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    Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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