The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Playing Tetris after a traumatic event can prevent the development of traumatic memories and reduce the chance of having flashbacks.
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