Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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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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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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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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