A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
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The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
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It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.
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In 1976, an underachieving Princeton junior undergraduate wrote a term paper detailing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an "A", but never got his paper back because it was seized by the FBI.
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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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