On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers were originally called the Pirates.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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In an average hour, there are over 61,000 Americans airborne over the United States.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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In Finland, Valentine's Day is called "Ystävänpäivä" which translates into "Friend's day".
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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