The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
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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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The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
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Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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