It has been calculated that every 2 minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.
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Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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Mentally doing a task makes you better at it. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
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If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
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