The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
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The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
19
A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
72
It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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The top sales at Walmart as a storm approaches are Pop-Tarts and beer.
12
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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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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