Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.
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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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An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
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A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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