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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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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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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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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Most lipstick contains fish scales!
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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