In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
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In the case of an emergency, a Crayola crayon can be used as a candle and will burn for about 15 minutes.
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Cuban rescue workers use sniffer rabbits to find people in collapsed buildings.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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