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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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You can hear the blood flowing through your ears if you find a quiet place and cover them tightly.
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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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An underwater forest off the coast of Alabama that is 50,000 years old was uncovered by Hurricane Katrina.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined.
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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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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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According to the New York Times, a study conducted during the 1980's found that men who kiss their wives before leaving for work live longer, get into fewer car accidents, and have a higher income than married men who don't.
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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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30 years ago, you could buy a lifetime, unlimited first-class travel pass with American Airlines for $250,000.
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In 21 U.S. states, WALMART is the single largest employer.
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To get a song out of your head, try doing something like a puzzle or Sudoku.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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Since 1982, a radio frequency emanating from Russia has been broadcasting a buzzer-like sound and, periodically, an unknown voice reads orders, names, and numbers. No one knows where exactly it is coming from or what it means.
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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