Interesting Facts
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Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states!
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Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
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In Dubai, there’s a fridge magnet that orders a pizza delivered to your door.
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The top sales at Walmart as a storm approaches are Pop-Tarts and beer.
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There's a love mattress that is specifically designed for couples who sleep on each other's arms.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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The scent of women’s tears temporarily reduces sexual arousal and testosterone production in men.
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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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A man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
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Anuptaphobia is the fear of staying single.
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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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The small pocket in the larger pocket of your jeans was designed for pocket watches.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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The French named one of their aircraft carriers after Ferdinand Foch, a man who once said "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value".
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
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On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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