Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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