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    There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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    ‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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    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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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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    Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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    It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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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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