Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
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On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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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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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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If you took a standard slinky and stretched it out it would measure 87 feet.
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