On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
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In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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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 number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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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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The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
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