Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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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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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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