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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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
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You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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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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