Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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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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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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You can immediately cool down a car that has been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.
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20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
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Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
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