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People breathe roughly 20,000 times every day.

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Only one building outside Washington, D.C., is featured on U.S. banknotes.

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Russian Czar Peter the Great established a tax on beards.

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Pull-tab cans were created because an engineer had to open his beer with a car bumper.

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Answering Your Biggest Questions About Dreams

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Cinnamon used to be more valuable than gold.

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Your sense of smell fluctuates throughout the day.

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The average hummingbird weighs less than a nickel.

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