Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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If you're one in a million, there are about 7,234 people just like you.
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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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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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The New York Stock Exchange started as a coffee shop!
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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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