The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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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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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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