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    Playing Tetris after a traumatic event can prevent the development of traumatic memories and reduce the chance of having flashbacks.
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    There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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    The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles per hour.
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    If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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    When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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    Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.
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    Tsunami Stones
    Tsunami Stones
    Around 300 ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a centuries-old stone marker that warns: “Do not build your homes below this point!”
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    It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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