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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You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
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Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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