Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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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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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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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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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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