The interesting facts thread

thirdlegstump

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Here's mine:

There are over 8 million people living in NYC. During business hours, there are over 16 million people. Inflation rate is approx 3.5 percent per year.
 

Xonoahbin

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The world's largest city is Tokyo. The city itself rings in at a population of 16 million, but including suburbs (as is often done in the US,) Tokyo has a population of 31 million.
 

Maximilian

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The word for the number after a trillion is a quadrillion. You can hear microsoft sam saying this if you go into the speech tools thing in windows xp :)
 

Powermoloch

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Technically your skin is the largest organ on your body, since it's composed of several types of tissue, hence an organ.
 

dxkj

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Is postage stamp glue really made out of...

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