A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Researchers say that lining the toilet seat with paper is pretty much pointless
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A human brain produces as many as 12,000 to 50,000 thoughts per day, depending on how deep a thinker a person is.
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When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
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Sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder, scarier, and sexier dreams.
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In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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