In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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