The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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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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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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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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There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
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