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| | Facts | - Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains throughout the year and about 460 inches per annum.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - In Las Vegas, the busiest and two most popular days chosen for couples to get married are St. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - One of the steepest main streets in Canada is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. Over a distance of two blocks the street rises about 80 feet.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Pere Lachaise Cemetary located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Tacoma Narrows Bridge which was located in Washington was nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" because of the unusual way it twisted and swayed with even with the slightest winds when people would drive on it. The bridge collapsed on November 7, 1940, fortunately no humans died, but one dog did.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The American Airlines Center in Dallas has more toilets per capita than any other sports and entertainment venue in the country
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The deepest cave in the world is the "Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht" cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. It was first erected as "Hollywoodland."
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