It's impossible to sink in the Dead Sea without equipment!
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Over its lifetime, the average microwave requires more energy to display a digital clock than to heat food.
10
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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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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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
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