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Post-It Notes...

 

It's the 30th Anniversary of the Post-It Note!

It was created in 1968 when scientist Spencer Silver discovered a unique adhesive that could stick to surfaces & be repositioned. His colleague Art Fry applied the adhesive to create a bookmark and production eventually began in 1980.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

Guacamole

 

According to the California Avocado Commission, Americans consume eight million pounds of guacamole on Super Bowl Sunday.

Studies Suggest You Will Forget This Pretty Soon!

In 1885 a psychologist named Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote about the "Forgetting Curve",  which indicates that the human mind forgets on average 60% of all information gained in a day if no conscious impulse is made to retain it within the same 24 hours.

Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.