Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
45
It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
703
Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
18
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
75
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.
10
To get a song out of your head, try doing something like a puzzle or Sudoku.
13
Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
235
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.
23