When withdrawing money from an ATM, the 'whirring' sound before your money pops out is actually a recording. The actual mechanism is so far back that you can't hear it.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
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A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
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There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
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Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
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