NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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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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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
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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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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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