There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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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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It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth!
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.
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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
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