Standard paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
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Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
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"Dysania" is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning.
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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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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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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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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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