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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Daft Punk named their band after a negative reviewer called their act "a bunch of daft punk."
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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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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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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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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85% of all Valentine's Day cards are purchased by women!
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