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    Fast Facts

    Christopher Columbus’s fee for “”discovering”” America was about $300.

    It cost $3 million to build the Titanic and $100 million to make the movie.

    Ozzy Osbourne has said that when he’s lonely, he talks to his knees.

    Sheryl Crow’s two front teeth are fake – the real ones got knocked out accidentally by a bar waitress.

    None of the Beatles knew how to read music. Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.

    It takes 6,000 gallons of paint, 60 people and four months to paint the Eiffel Tower.

    The Great Wall of China is long enough to stretch from New York City to Houston.

    Twenty thousand silver teaspoons are stolen from the Washington, D.C., Hilton Hotel each year.

    The retail industry loses more inventory to employee theft than it does to shoplifting.

    Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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