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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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
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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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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
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