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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Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
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It's impossible to sink in the Dead Sea without equipment!
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Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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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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More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
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