Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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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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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year!
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Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.
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