A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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