Mental Floss

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If you've ever mistakenly grabbed the Phillips head screwdriver when you needed a flat head, you've probably asked yourself why there are different types of screws.

Matt Soniak
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Subliminal messages affect the subconscious mind. Here's some pleasant (and not so pleasant) messages hiding in plain sight.

David K. Israel






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Up in the winter sky, water vapor in a cloud condenses into a droplet and freezes into a tiny bit of ice, with the water molecules bonding together as a hexagonal crystalline lattice with a six-fold symmetry.

Matt Soniak