A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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A new baby usually deprives each of it's parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year. That is one entire nights sleep per week, per parent.
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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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