"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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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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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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The higher someone’s I.Q. the more likely they are to be sleep deprived.
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People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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Wearing red increases attraction.
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