The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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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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A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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