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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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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A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
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Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast if it is put in the laundry.
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The harder you concentrate on falling asleep, the less likely you are to fall asleep.
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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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The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.
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