Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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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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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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‘Qatar’ is the world's most expensive bar of soap. Infused with gold and diamond powder, it costs a squeaky clean $2,800.
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