People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights!
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Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.
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Tsunamis ( tidal waves ) travel as fast as jet planes.
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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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When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
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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 fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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