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In cumulative hours, honey bees sleep between 5 and 8 hours a day, similar to the number of hours humans sleep. Some species will sleep right inside flowers. These are two Globe Mallow Bees
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Did you know baobas are one of the longest living organisms on the planet?
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Cats' toe beans are shock absorbers and mufflers.
Paw pads are squishy because they contain a lot of fatty tissue, allowing cats to absorb the shock of a hard fall. For this same reason, toe beans also help cats prowl silently while stalking their prey.
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Madagascar has been isolated for about 88 million years and is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth: 90% them are found only there.
It literally looks like another world.
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Got your fingers tuck with a super glue? Try WD40.
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How to self rescue in the event you fall through frozen ice.
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These are the blackened lungs of a 52-year-old man who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years.
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The coast around Benagil, Portugal, is made up of Miocene limestone sitting on much older rocks created in the Mesozoic.
Over time, the limestone built up, with the layers that make up the Benagil Sea Cave forming about 20 million years ago.
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Rare sighting of a schema monk outside Mount Athos, Greece.
In Orthodox Christianity, a schema monk is a monk who has taken the highest level of monastic vows.
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Kit Kat bars are actually recursive
The filling in Kit Kats is made from damaged Kit Kats
Some bars get broken while they're being made, and instead of throwing them out, the company crushes them up and that's what's inside of a Kit Kat bar: it's literally crushed up Kit Kats
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How to "jump" your car battery the right way.
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Patek Philippe Swiss watch with Golden Bracelet
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This is Magawa, the famous mine-clearing rat who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism.
In a five-year career, the rodent sniffed out over 100 landmines and other explosives in Cambodia helping clear 20 football fields of land from explosives.
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By tapping mushrooms you can achieve two results: knowing if they're empty inside and therefore if they likely have bugs and increase the chances the spores are dispersed so that new ones will grow in that same spot.
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Left: Arnie, award winning French Bulldog.
Right: Flint, bred in the Netherlands by Hawbucks French Bulldogs - a breeder trying to recover a healthier template for French Bulldogs, as they looked like about a century ago.
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The $347K Takashi Murakami x Hublot watch
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«Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions , binding together people who never knew each other [...] Books [and writing] are proof that humans are capable of working magic»
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Beluga caviar is harvested from female fish through a milking-like process.
Beluga caviar is the most expensive type of caviar, with market prices ranging from $7,000 to $22,000/kg ($3,200 to $10,000/lb).
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Warsaw National Stadium's retractable roof structure is 240 × 270 m and the central spire stands at 100 meters above the pitch.
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Did you know there’s a massive tire graveyard so large it can be seen from space? Welcome to Kuwait’s Al Jahra tire dump, the world’s largest tire graveyard, home to over 7 million discarded tires! For over 20 years, tires from all over the world have been transported to Kuwait, creating a mountain of waste. This incredible tire dump, the size of a small city, symbolizes an environmental challenge in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth.
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If you could walk to the Moon, it would take 13 years, but walking to the Sun would take 3,500 years.
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Bartending is an art form, not just about pulling pints.
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The most expensive hat ever sold at an auction
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The ambitious megaproject of Dubai's Ziggurat Pyramid
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«Are you eating the wrong cinnamon?»
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