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    It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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    The name Joshua is Hebrew for 'Jesus'.
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    The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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    The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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    Play-Doh was first manufactured as a wallpaper cleaner.
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    You can immediately cool down a car that has been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.
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    Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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