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Singapore bought billions of cubic feet of sand from Cambodia!

Countries trade resources to get what they need. One may have the land to grow a lot of crops while another has forests and can provide timber. While exchanges are not so cut and dry, this is the basic premise. However, sometimes things are just that simple.

Singapore, one of the smallest countries in the world, has a lot of money but not a lot of territory, particularly coastlines. Cambodia on the other hand has plenty of land but is poor. These circumstances lead the two countries to reach an odd agreement.

Billions of cubic feet of sand has been dredged up from Cambodia’s coastline and shipped by barge to Singapore. There, it has been turned into new cubic miles of Singapore territory. This land is now home to hotels and casinos among other structures. In return, Singapore has paid Cambodia well for this new land.

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Schools with music programs have an estimated 90% graduation rate compared to schools without music education who average 73% graduation rate.

Schools with music programs have an estimated 90% graduation rate compared to schools without music education who average 73% graduation rate. Think this is important? DoSomething.org and VH1's Save the Music Foundation think so too. Join them to save music education programs around the country from April 30 until June 14 in their Band Together campaign. Not only will you be saving music programs around the country but even have a shot at being in Philip Phillips' cover video of "Gone, Gone, Gone." Sign up at www.dosomething.org/band

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During college, Will Ferrell dressed up as a janitor and pretended to clean his friends' classes!

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Will Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, California, where he made his school's daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices.

While at USC he would dress up in a janitor's uniform and go into his friends' classrooms and clean. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former "Saturday Night Live" repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to "Saturday Night Live" later.

He has also appeared on several television programs, Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family "The Oblongs". In 1995 he became a feature cast member at "Saturday Night Live" during the show's rapid re-casting. He was declared quite possibly the worst cast member ever during his first season.

However, his talents of impersonations and range of characters shot him forward to making him arguably the greatest "Saturday Night Live" cast member ever. During his seven year run he is one of the few cast members to ever be nominated for an Emmy for a performance and played George W. Bush during the 2000 elections. He's appeared in every "Saturday Night Live" movie since his premiere on the show in 1995.

In 2002 he left "Saturday Night Live" and was the only cast member to ever receive a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show. Since leaving the show Will has pursued a career in films. In 2000 he married and now lives in L.A.

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The military has a special tire that doesn't use any air!

The pneumatic tire is the traditionally used tire, one that we've been putting on our vehicles for around 100 years now. Well, the times are changing according to Michelin because in 2005, the company released what they called the 'Tweel Airless Tire', or rather 'Tweel' for short. And yes, the name derives from mixing the words 'tire' and 'wheel' together.

The reason that this tire is more effective than a standard tire, is because it is airless - but it provides the same endurance and capabilities of a regular tire. In fact, the 'tweel' is said to adjust slightly better to unusual road conditions because of the design of the spokes.

The 'tweel' make look like a futuristic bicycle tire - but it may provide a solution to driver's constantly getting flat tires because they drove over random objects on the road. Further, the tweel makes the handling of the vehicle adjustable, however the tweel can only be adjusted prior to it being made.

For more info on tweel, read the source!

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Donald Trump cashed a check for 13 cents!

Spy magazine, decided to hold a little competition to see who exactly the cheapest, American, 'zillionaires' are. The competition consisted of Spy created a fake, but totally legal, company called the National Refund Clearinghouse.

At first, the company sent out checks of $1.11 to 58 well known millionaires. Of the 58 people that were sent checks, 26 people, including Donald Trump, Cher, Kurt Vonnegut, cashed the checks. Some of the people that DIDN'T cash the checks include Billy Joel, Woody Allen, and Dustin Hoffman.

In the second round, the millionaires received a second check for $0.64 in order to cover a 'computer error'. Only 13 people cashed this check, including Donald Trump and Adnan Khashoggi. - both well known billionaires.

In the final round, the last 13 competitors were sent a check of $0.13 and only two people cashed this tiny, insignificant check. One was Donald Trump, and the other was Adnan Khashoggi.

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