Golf balls have dimples because they help reduce drag, this allows the ball to fly further than a smooth ball would.

Murphy beds have been attributed as the cause of people's deaths before. Most recently in 2005 when two women were trapped and suffocated to the death by their Murphy bed.

The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss. The name that lost was Boston.

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