The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.
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The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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