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For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality.
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For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
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For reasons of security, only people who were illiterate were considered for more routine jobs at the first atomic bomb construction centre in New Mexico.
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For Roman Catholics, 5 January is St Simeon Stylites' Day. He was a fifth-century hermit who showed his devotion to God by spending literally years sitting on top of a huge flagpole.
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For the 66% of American's who admit to reading in the bathroom, the preferred reading material is "Reader's Digest."
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For the movie the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was paid $35 a week while Toto received $125 a week.
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Formula One Driver, Jackie Stewart, who won three motor racing world championships, also has been the British clay pigeon shooter five times.
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Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.
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Forty-six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean; that's around 6 sextillion gallons of water. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.
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Forty-six US federal agencies have officers with the authority to carry firearms and arrest people.
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