Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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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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Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
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Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.
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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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Since 1982, a radio frequency emanating from Russia has been broadcasting a buzzer-like sound and, periodically, an unknown voice reads orders, names, and numbers. No one knows where exactly it is coming from or what it means.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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