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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Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
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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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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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