Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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