The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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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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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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62% of us pop our zits.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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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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