The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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The best diamonds are colored blue-white.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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