In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
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If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
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If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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The military used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks in Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Storm War.
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