Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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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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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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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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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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