The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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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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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
29
Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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