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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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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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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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed!
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