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The higher someone’s I.Q. the more likely they are to be sleep deprived.
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Studies show that the colder the room you sleep in, the more likely you are to have a bad dream.
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The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
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Daydreamers are better at solving complex problems.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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The hole in the soda can tab is actually used to hold a straw in place and stop it from rising.
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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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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Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.
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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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At 90 degrees below zero, your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
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A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
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In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
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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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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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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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When watching a DVD press stop-stop-play-skip to skip the ads and go straight to the movie.
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You can immediately cool down a car that has been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.
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