When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
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Sudbury Valley School allows students to do whatever they want; no curriculum, tests, homework, or even classes unless requested. 82% of students get accepted to college, as opposed to the 63% national public school average.
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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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