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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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
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