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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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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Sitting straight upright in your chair is bad for your back. You should instead slouch at an angle of 135 degrees.
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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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Walt Disney was a high school dropout and he was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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The largest breed of rabbit is the Flemish Giant.
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