The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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