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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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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