Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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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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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.
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