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304.77
Courtesy of Bugatti
SPEED, in miles per hour, recently reached by Bugatti’s new sports car on a test track in Germany. It’s the first supercar to top 300 miles per hour.
Source: CNBC
$23,000
AMOUNT OF CASH accidentally recycled in a shoebox by an Oregon man. After he contacted the sorting company, almost all the money was found at a recycling plant in California.
Source: Time
8,933 ft
LENGTH of the world’s longest mountain water slide. (That’s more than a mile-and-a-half long.) The new attraction, located in Lishui, China, took two years to build.
Source: Guinness World Records
5 grams
AMOUNT of microplastic people around the world could be ingesting every week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, according to a recent study. Small pieces of plastic often end up in our food and drinking water.
Source: University of Newcastle, Australia