Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.
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Sudbury Valley School allows students to do whatever they want; no curriculum, tests, homework, or even classes unless requested. 82% of students get accepted to college, as opposed to the 63% national public school average.
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.
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In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
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There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
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