Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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