When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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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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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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