Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
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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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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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