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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The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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Speed dating was invented by a Rabbi in 1999.
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More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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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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