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    Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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    The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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    NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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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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    Mincome
    Mincome
    An experimental program in Canada in the 1970s gave everyone a minimum income just for being a citizen.
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    Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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    An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
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    Increased Creativity
    Increased Creativity
    Research has found that you're more likely to have a creative epiphany when you're doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering.
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