The hands of the clock on the back of the $100 bill are set at approximately 4:10.
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In Finland, Valentine's Day is called "Ystävänpäivä" which translates into "Friend's day".
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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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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More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!
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When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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