Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
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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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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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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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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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