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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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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Caffeine boosts memory.
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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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