The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.

Wham-O manufactured twenty-thousand hula-hoops a day at the peak of hula-hoop popularity in 1958.

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