The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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How valuable is that penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies!

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Vietnamese currency consists only of paper money; no coins.

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The U.S. shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year

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Americans spend $10 million each day on potato chips.

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Over 30 million people in the US "suffer" from Diastima. Diastima is having a gap between your front teeth.

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Glass flutes do not expand with humidity so their owners are spared the nuisance of tuning them.

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Neck ties were first worn in Croatia.That's why they were called cravats (CRO-vats).

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Urea is found in human urine and dalmatian dogs and nowhere else.

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Sarsaparilla is the root that flavors root beer.

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Soldiers from every country salute with their right hand.

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Cyano-acrylate glues (Super glues) were invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

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Moisture, not air, causes super glue to dry.

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A wedding ring is generally exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. That means that a wedding ring can't be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

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Benito Mussolini would ward off the evil eye by touching his testicles.

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The tailless dinner jacket was invented in Tuxedo Park, New York. Thus it is called the "tuxedo dinner jacket" and is named after the town...not the other way around