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| The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop! |
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| The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday. |
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| The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m. |
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| The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation. |
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| The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it. |
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| The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum! |
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| The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived! |
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| The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes |
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| The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September. |
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| The country of Brazil is named after the brazil nut. |
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| The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies. |
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| The can opener was invented 48 years after the can |
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| The best diamonds are colored blue-white |
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| The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores. |
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| The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. |
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| Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't . |
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| Streets in Japan do not have names. |
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| Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. |
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| Snails breathe through their feet. |
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| Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do. |
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| Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight! |
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| Sheryl Crow's two front teeth are fake. |
