Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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