If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
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The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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