Random Interesting Facts

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    Chewing Gum Farts
    Chewing Gum Farts
    Chewing gum can make a person fart more.
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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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    For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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    It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged.
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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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    The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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    Some people have a "natural alarm clock" allowing them to wake up when they want. This is actually caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin.
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    Knocker-Up
    Knocker-Up
    Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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