The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely you are to fall asleep.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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