The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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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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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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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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If you're one in a million, there are about 7,234 people just like you.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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