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    Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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    The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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    The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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    In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
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    Research has found that you're more likely to have a creative epiphany when you're doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering.
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    The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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    NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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    "Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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