The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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