It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
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If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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A real estate agent's rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
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The chlorine smell in swimming pools is accentuated by the chemical's reaction with impurities (like poop.)
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