The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
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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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There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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