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    Studies show that the colder the room you sleep in, the more likely you are to have a bad dream.
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    In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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    Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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    Funeral Poets of Amsterdam
    If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
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    If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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    A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
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    When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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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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