Researchers say that lining the toilet seat with paper is pretty much pointless
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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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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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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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 streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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