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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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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