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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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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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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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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If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states!
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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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