Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes!
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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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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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
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