When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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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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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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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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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds!
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