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.
10
The North Atlantic gets 2.5 centimetres (1in) wider every year.
119
If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
808
A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
225
In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
707
The province of Alberta, Canada is free of the common rat.
33
The 1 yen coin can be used as a weight, because it weighs exactly one gram. Also, it can float on water.
19