You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
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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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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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