The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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