The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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80% of millionaires drive used cars.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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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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Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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