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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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.
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