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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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
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There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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