Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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The average IQ is 100, while 140 is the beginning of genius IQ.
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Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
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People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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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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