Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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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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According to an assistant professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, wearing red increases your chances in things like dating and hitchhiking.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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