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On the stone temples of Madura in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.
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The 20,000 year-old expanse of Antarctic ice known as the Larsen Ice Shelf has developed a crack 65 km long. This, combined with the separation of a large iceberg with a surface area of around 2,900 km and a thickness of 200 meters (now making its way north), will require the drafting of new
maps of Antarctica. Both changes have been attributed to global warming.
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27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
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If you're going to eat fast food, the odds are 2 out of 5 you will buy it at McDonald's. The odds are 1 out of 5 you will choose Burger King, and 1 out of 10 for Hardee's and for Wendy's.
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According to a market research survey done some time ago, 68% of consumers receiving junk mail actually open the envelopes.
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Head injuries occur about every 15 seconds in the United States.
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There was a prehistoric horse breed (called eohippus) that was about the size of a housecat.
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Ants do not sleep.
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Flying once around the moon is the equivalent with a round trip from New York to London. (Earth is about four times the size of the moon.)
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The mozzarella originally used in Italy for pizza, was made from the milk of the water buffalo.
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Pizza is the number 2 entree in food service, outpacing the growth rate of all other food items. It represents more than 10% of all food sales and is expected to exceed the hamburger 1996.
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Kenyan musicians are sometimes forced to play gigs while locked inside metal cages! Why? Nairobi nightclub musicians often don't have enough money to buy their instruments - the equipment is instead provided by club owners. Some owners literally imprison the musicians on stage to make sure they don't steal or damage the equipment.
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Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
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In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said "Computers in the
future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
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If the Loch Ness monster exists at all, he (or she) could only be about as big as a sixth grader. A new study shows that there is only enough fish in the loch to feed a 31 kg (about 67 lb) creature. The scientists used sonar to estimate the number of fish in the lake and came up with an annual food supply of 93 kg. Since a cold blooded animal like Nessie would need to eat about three times its body weight each year, it could only weigh about 31 kg.
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There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
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Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. The fastest typist can type at 211 words per minute.
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Born on November 3, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the "sandwich." He developed a habit of eating beef between slices of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
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Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico. Fresca is slang for lesbian.
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The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
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