The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
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You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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It's impossible to sink in the Dead Sea without equipment!
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