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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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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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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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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You can immediately cool down a car that has been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.
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