An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.
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Researchers say that lining the toilet seat with paper is pretty much pointless
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The Gate Tower Building skyscraper in Japan has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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