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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Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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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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