Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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The hole in the soda can tab is actually used to hold a straw in place and stop it from rising.
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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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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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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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