Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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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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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
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