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2796
Music
CHOOSING A CONDUCTOR'S BATON
You should be able to balance a good conductor's baton one and one quarter inch up the shaft from the handle. If it balances any further up the shaft than that, you will find yourself holding the baton incorrectly to compensate. Your arm will get tired.
Wendy Ksiow, Senior Legal Processing Bank Clerk, Photographer and Seamstress, Garden Grove, CA, USA
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Astronomy
METEOR CRATERS
A meteor crater is generally twenty times the diameter of the meteorite that created it.
James Erwin, Editor, Des Moines, IA, USA
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Music
WHEN TO CHANGE GUITAR STRINGS
If your guitar strings are rusty, discolored, your fingers don't slide well on them, or they generally don't feel good, it's time to change your strings.
Austin, Crestview, Florida, USA
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3820
Travel
FORGETTING SOMETHING IMPORTANT
When leaving someplace you've stayed overnight (such as a hotel or relatives house) anything important you could possibly lose can be found by looking under the bed.
Andy Sloan
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Children
PARENT-CHILD PERSONALITY CLASHES
If you find that you're consistently clashing with your child, chances are very good that you have the same personality.
Mary Bouchard, CPA and mother, Trumansburg, NY, USA
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Cooking
KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOU'RE FINGERS.
When slicing anything with an indu. slicer never look in any other direction other than where your fingers are in asso. with the blade.
Kayla Garcia Ortiz, Asst. Manager, Indinanpolis, Indiana, USA
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Miscellaneous
THOUGHTS
You are not controlled by what you think; You are not controlled by what others
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Bruce Alan Niles, retired, Charlotte, NC, United States
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Appliances
COOLING WITH GRASS
Eight average front lawns have the cooling effect of about 20 central air conditioners.
Curt Suplee, writer and editor, in The Washington Post magazine
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Computers
REVIVING A COMPUTER AFTER A FIRE
If a computer's plastic casing has not been deformed by the heat, which begins to happen at 250 degrees F, then the computer will work.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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Health
DRYING YOUR HANDS
If you are too busy to use hot-air hand dryers in public restrooms, your lifestyle is too busy for your own health.
Gerald Gutlipp, mathematician, Chicago, Illinois
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Grooming
CLEANING YOUR HANDS
If you want to sterilize the dirt on your hands, use the warm-air hand dryer. If you want to get the dirt off your hands, find a towel.
Alan R. Brown, New York, New York
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