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18 Apr 2025 16:14

In 2006, scientists discovered 20,000-year-old human footprints in Australia, revealing that the individual who left them was sprinting at around 37 km/h(23 mph), matching the pace of a contemporary Olympic sprinter yet barefoot and on sandy terrain.

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15 Apr 2025 09:35

The Ayam Cemani is a rare Indonesian chicken breed known for being entirely black-its feathers, skin, muscles, bones, and even internal organs.

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11 Apr 2025 11:41

Studies show that spending on experiences leads to longer-lasting happiness than buying material goods.

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09 Apr 2025 19:22

A Millionaire declared his intention to bury his Bentley for use in the afterlife, sparking widespread backlash.

He later unveiled that his announcement was a publicity stunt to promote organ donation, emphasizing, "People bury things that are much more valuable than cars and nobody seems to care."

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06 Apr 2025 14:53

In 2015, while hunting elk in Montana, Chase Dellwo encountered a grizzly bear.

He remembered an article mentioning that large animals have strong gag reflexes. Acting on this information, he shoved his arm down the bear's throat, causing it to retreat.

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02 Apr 2025 16:06

There is a Mental psychosis known as Jerusalem syndrome, which is the phenomenon whereby a person who seems previously balanced and devoid of any signs of psychopathology becomes psychotic after arriving in Jerusalem.

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29 Mar 2025 11:31

In Kenya, elephant dung is being utilized to produce paper. Elephants excrete up to 50 kg of dung daily, which can yield 125 sheets of paper.

This innovative practice helps prevent deforestation and protects the remaining 7,000 elephants in Kenya by supporting elephant sanctuaries.

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26 Mar 2025 13:07

The Miracle berry is a unique fruit that, when consumed, temporarily alters your taste perception.

Prevents your taste buds from detecting sour flavors for approximately thirty minutes. As a result, sour foods can taste surprisingly sweet.

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22 Mar 2025 15:58

In the Alaskan town of Utqiagvik (formerly known as 'Barrow'), once the Sun sets on November 18, it does not rise again until January 23.

During this period of about 66 days, the Sun remains below the horizon.

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20 Mar 2025 11:27

In Surabaya, Indonesia, residents can pay for bus rides with plastic waste.

Five plastic bottles or ten plastic cups grant a two-hour ticket. This initiative aims to reduce plastic waste and promote public transport usage.

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16 Mar 2025 01:15

The First chainsaw was invented to facilitate childbirth.

In 1780, two Scottish doctors invented the prototype of the chainsaw. Not to cut down trees or clear debris.

John Aitken and James Jeffray invented the hand-cranked chainsaw to cut through the pelvises of delivering mothers who were having trouble pushing their babies out.

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14 Mar 2025 20:15

Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.

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12 Mar 2025 17:54

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12 Mar 2025 07:56

Women account for 85% of all consumer spending in the United States.

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09 Mar 2025 11:22

IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was so frugal that he reused teabags pocketed salt packets, and drove a 1993 Volvo, despite being worth $58.7 billion at the time of his passing.

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18 Apr 2025 07:51

Most Airplanes are painted white to reflect sunlight, keeping the plane cooler and reducing the need for air conditioning, which helps save fuel.

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11 Apr 2025 18:52

After discovering Jupiter's intense radiation belt, NASA needed a last-minute fix to shield the exterior cables of the Voyager deep space probes.

They sent a technician to the local supermarket bought all of the kitchen-grade aluminum foil, and wrapped it around the cables.

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10 Apr 2025 09:17

Restoring wolf populations in an area can reduce deer-vehicle collisions by about 24%. This reduction is due to the "landscape of fear" created by wolves, causing deer to avoid roads.

Wolves tend to follow linear paths, including roads, which helps keep deer away and reduce collisions.

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07 Apr 2025 06:18

In 1977, Shakuntala Devi, known as the "human computer,"' extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. Her answer, 546,372,891, was later confirmed by the UNIVAC 1101 computer at the U.S. Bureau of Standards, which required a special program for this calculation.

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03 Apr 2025 07:12

In 1957, the BBC aired a famous April Fools' Day hoax, showing Swiss farmers harvesting spaghetti from trees as part of a fake documentary.

Many viewers believed it and called in asking how they could grow their own spaghetti trees!

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31 Mar 2025 08:44

A man was discovered to be unknowingly missing 90% of his brain, yet he was living a normal life.

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27 Mar 2025 03:04

A New telescope is being built in Chile, which is anticipated to deliver images with a clarity that is 16 times greater than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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25 Mar 2025 04:44

There is a disease called Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome (SCDS) that affects the inner ear and amplifies all internal sounds.

It gets to the point where the sound of the eyeballs moving in their sockets sounds like “sandpaper on wood.”

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21 Mar 2025 10:04

In 1930, the Indiana Bell Building Was moved 52 feet and rotated 90 degrees without disturbing the 600 working employees or cutting off utilities.

The seven-story, 22 million-pound structure was shifted 15 inches per hour over 34 days, all while remaining fully operational.

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17 Mar 2025 12:19

In 2011, two fishermen from Kiribati were lost at sea for 33 days, drifting 600 kilometers before washing up on Namdrik Atoll.

There, one of them met the descendants of his long-lost uncle, who had been lost at sea 50 years earlier, landed on the same island, and started a family.

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15 Mar 2025 15:08

Mingi is a traditional practice in southern Ethiopia, where body abnormalities, even chipping or growing the upper tooth before the lower tooth gets a child discarded from the tribe to die in the wilderness.

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13 Mar 2025 11:37

In 2022, James Michael Grimes won a free drink in an air-guitar competition while on a cruise.

His last memory before waking upoverboard in the Gulf of Mexico without the ship in sight. He treaded water for nearly 20 hours, was stung by jellyfish, and encountered a sea creature before being rescued.

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12 Mar 2025 17:54

Pigeons are one of the most intelligent birds on the planet. Pigeons can recognize all 26 letters of the English language and are also capable of conceptualizing.

Pigeons can differentiate between photographs and even differentiate between two different human beings in a photograph.

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10 Mar 2025 16:01

Service dogs are trained to recognize when they are on duty.

Wearing their harness signifies work mode; once removed, they often become more relaxed and playful.

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08 Mar 2025 05:55

There is a plant called the Skeleton Flower whose petals turn transparent when wet and then revert back to white when dry.