You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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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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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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