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    Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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    It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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    Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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    More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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    When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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    A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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