Home Repair Hacks Just in Time For Spring Cleaning

Tennis Ball Floors

If you've got scratchy floors with marks all over, you probably hate seeing them. How do you clean up something like that? Well, with a tennis ball obviously! Just envelope it around the bottom of a chair leg and watch the problem literally disappear.

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The More You Know

  • If you heat up a magnet, it will lose its magnetism.
  • You can major in wine at Cornell University.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
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