Caffeine boosts memory.
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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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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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