The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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The top sales at Walmart as a storm approaches are Pop-Tarts and beer.
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'X' became symbolic for a kiss because in the middle ages when alot of people were illiterate and they used to sign documents with an X and then kiss it for sincerity.
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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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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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