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    Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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    The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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    The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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    Extremely high pressured water can easily cut through a steel beam.
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    The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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    A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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    65-Year-Old Bottled Plant
    65-Year-Old Bottled Plant
    There's a plant that has survived in a sealed bottle for over 65 years. It was watered just once in 55 years.
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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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