The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.
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22% leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.
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