When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely you are to fall asleep.
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There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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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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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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