Playing Tetris after a traumatic event can prevent the development of traumatic memories and reduce the chance of having flashbacks.
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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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Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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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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