It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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A typical full-time worker in the US with a four-year college degree earns about $50,000. This is 62% more than a worker with only a high-school diploma.
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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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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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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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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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