Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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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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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
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