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[Via Weird Facts] Italians are used to buying bogus Gucci bags or Rolex watches to look stylish but police found a new height of craftsmanship and cunning when they broke up a ring selling fake Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real price.

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[Via Weird Science Facts] Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.

A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.

Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.

[Via Weird Facts]
BEIJING (Reuters)—The names of three banks and the word "stocks" beat
"sex" to become four of the most Googled words in China last year,
according to a Google China list seen on Thursday.

China
Merchants Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China
Construction Bank ranked second, third and sixth, according to a list
supplied by Google China on its website (www.google.cn).