Babies are born without knee caps.
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The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
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"Big Ben" in London isn't a tower, the bell inside the tower is called "Big Ben", the tower itself is called "The Elizabeth Tower".
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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