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| Contrary to popular belief, women cause fewer road accidents than men do. |
| The primary causes of accidents in coal mines is the accumulation of gas. |
| A kilobyte has 1024 bytes. A kilometre has 1000 metres. |
| If England had not imposed a tax on tea in 1773, the United States would have probably not remained part of the British Commonwealth. |
| The Internal Revenue Service makes all Americans file their tax forms by April 15 every year. |
| If it were more humid in the desert of the Southwest, the hot temperatures would be unbearable. |
| Secretariat ran the Kentucky Derby in 1.59 minutes, setting a record that has remained unbroken since 1973. |
| In most developed countries, people do not need to boil water before they drink it. |
| Since more than 50 percent of all marriages in the United States end in divorce, about half of the children in America must grow up in single-parent homes. |
| The waters of the Planetary Ocean contain silver - 0.3 mg/m3 and gold - 0.008 mg/m3. The total quantity of gold is 11 billion tons, but its concentration is unprofitable for extraction. |
| The quantity of dissolved minerals in the waters of the Planetary Ocean is 50x1016 tons. This qunatity is enough to cover the ground of the Ocean with a 60m thick layer, the land surface with - 153m , or all the Planet with a 45m thick layer. |
| The mass of our Sun is 1,98x1030 Kg (that is 198000000000000000000000000000000 Kg. |
| The mass of the planet Earth is 6,37x1024 Kg (that is 6370000000000000000000000 Kg. |
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