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There are no weight classes in professional sumo. Some wrestlers end up facing opponents more than twice their size, relying on technique instead of mass.

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One 18-inch pizza contains more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas - about 12.5% more. (Area: 18" = π·9² = 81π; two 12" = 2×(π·6²) = 72π.)

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There are more tigers kept as 'pets' in captivity - especially in private ownership in the U.S. - than there are tigers living in the wild worldwide.

The nickname 'a grand' for $1,000 dates back to 1915 in The Boston Daily Globe, when a thousand was seen as a 'grand sum.' In today’s money, that’s about $32,000.

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