'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth! "
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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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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Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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