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    Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
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    A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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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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    To get a song out of your head, try doing something like a puzzle or Sudoku.
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    Research has found that you're more likely to have a creative epiphany when you're doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering.
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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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    No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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    The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
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