Bizarre fact #893:
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The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases.

Bizarre fact #3359:
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The Luxor Hotel (shaped like an Egyptian Pyramid) is 36 stories tall, required more than 150,000 cubic yards of concrete, six thousand construction workers and 18 months to build. It takes a specially designed window washing device 64 hours to clean the sides of the pyramid, which is covered by 13 acres of glass. The Luxor atrium is the world's largest and could comfortably hold nine Boeing 747 airplanes.

Bizarre fact #1302:
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Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life.

Bizarre fact #2454:
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Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

Bizarre fact #3006:
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The first drug that was offered as a water-soluble tablet, was aspirin in 1900.