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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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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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
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The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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The longest Monopoly game in history lasted 70 straight days.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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