No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
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Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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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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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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