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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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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