Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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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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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.
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When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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