The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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Researchers say that lining the toilet seat with paper is pretty much pointless
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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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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
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