When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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Your fingernails grow faster in summer.
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Most streets in Japan do not have names.
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Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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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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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
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