Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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According to an assistant professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, wearing red increases your chances in things like dating and hitchhiking.
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U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.
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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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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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