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Sleep and Mortality

“Men and women who sleep 6 hours or less per 24 hour period or 8 hours and more per 8 hour period are at an increased risk for mortality. 7 hours per 24 hour period was the best solution to decreasing mortality hazards.” [source]

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Caverns Beneath Naples

“Over the centuries a massive honeycomb of caverns and passageways has been created beneath Naples and its environs. In World War II many of the quarry shafts were enlarged and spiraling stairways were added, opening up the caverns for use as air raid shelters.” [source]

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63,000 Years of Reading

“To read every book in the Library of Congress woud take the average person 63,000 years” [source]

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Independence of India

“India, a former British colony, became an independent republic at midnight on 15th August, 1947.” [source]

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Cricket Chirps and Temperature

“If you can hear crickets chirping, the formula to calculate the temperature (in degrees Farenheit) is to count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and add 39.” [source]

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Space Shuttle Discovery

“Space Shuttle Discovery has flown 33 flights, spent 241.95 days in space, completed 3,808 orbits, and flown 98,710,673 statute miles (158,859,429 km) in total, as of December 2006. It has flown the most flights of all Space Shuttles so far (a title it is likely to keep). Discovery has also flown on more individual flights [...]

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128 bit Standard Encryption

“If a computer was invented that could recover one DES encryption key in one second, it would take it approximately 149 trillion years to crack a 128bit standard encyrption key – which we all use on our computers.” [source]

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A Lifetime of Bed Making

LeeLoo200 Submitted this fact in a comment, Thanks! “On average, every human walks 4km in their lifetime from just making their bed. Now thats saying something. HaHa”  [source]

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