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5172 Travel
THE CHEAPEST TIME TO BOOK A FLIGHT
The cheapest time to book a flight Is eight weeks before you're traveling.
Scott Parker
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5171 Sleep
HYPNAGOGIA
Sleeping on your back can cause hypnagogia, a state between consciousness and sleep where you can experience sleep paralysis and vivid hallucinations. In most cases, this can be very frightening.
Lisa, United States
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5170 Cooking
POUND FOR POUND
When canning pickles, one pound of pickling cucumbers will fill one quart jar.
Teresa Sorenson, mother, Ellensburg, WA, USA
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5169 Computers
TERABYTE PER DAY
One terabyte per day can be transmitted over a 100 megabit per second data connection.
Taed Wynnell, Software Engineer, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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5168 Politics
POLITICS' INCREASING ROLE IN DAILY LIFE
Now more than ever before, politics is affecting people's everyday lives. This is because the government is making laws inserting itself into people's everyday lives more than ever before. And the people that run the government naturally create laws based on their political beliefs.
C, Trussville, AL
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5167 Politics
POLITICAL CONSERVATVES' VIEW OF LIBERALS
Politically conservative people view politically liberal people as being like children who don't yet understand why things are the way they are.
C, Trussville, AL
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5166 Politics
POLITICAL LIBERALS' VIEW OF CONSERVATVES
Politically liberal people view politically conservative people as closed-minded due to stupidity and/or ignorance and/or fear of change.
C, Trussville, AL
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5165 Politics
SELF IMAGE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATIVES
Politically conservative people see themselves as responsible and accountable.
C, Trussville, AL
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