Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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