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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Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
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Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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It's impossible to sink in the Dead Sea without equipment!
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Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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