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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American car horns beep in the tone of F.
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"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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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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If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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