The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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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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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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