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04 Mar 2025 12:17

Olivia Farnsworth, a UK teenager has a rare chromosome 6 deletion causing her to not feel pain, hunger, or fatigue. She is the only known person with all three symptoms.

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02 Mar 2025 07:30

The only African Country that doesn't celebrate Independence Day is Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is the only African country to not be colonized. They successfully defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa. They are celebrating that Victory day today!

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28 Feb 2025 07:35

There are colors that are too complex for the human eye called “Impossible Colors.”

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23 Feb 2025 16:16

THERE'S A SLEEPING CONTEST IN SPAIN WHERE YOU CAN WIIN $1,000 BY NAPPING FOR 20 MINUTES.

Spain's annual siesta contest brings together sleepy competitors eager to showcase their napping skills in a public shopping mall.

Participants curl up with pillows and stuffed animals, donning quirky sleepwear as they tried to doze off amid the noise of wailing babies and blaring pop music.

A doctor monitors their sleep using a
pulse-measuring device, awarding points for
duration, snoring, and amusing sleep positions

The first ever champion in 2010 was a 47-year-old construction worker who slept for 18 minutes and proudly celebrated his victory.

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21 Feb 2025 13:05

At around 50 feet underwater, humans reach negative buoyancy and naturally sink.

Freedivers call this the "freefall" stage, where they stop swimming and let gravity pull them deeper.

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20 Feb 2025 07:01

In Germany, acquiring a driver's license typically costs between €2,600 and €3,500 ($2,900-$3,900 USD), covering expenses for driving lessons, tests, and administrative fees.

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15 Feb 2025 08:04

Italy didn't have tomatoes until 1548, which is why traditional Italian food doesn't use tomatoes.

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31 Jan 2025 18:16

Fidel Castro maintained busy working hours, often only going to bed at 3 or 4 a.m.

He preferred to meet foreign diplomats in these early hours, believing that they would be tired and he could gain the upper hand in negotiations.

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28 Jan 2025 08:01

William Kamkwamba, at age 14, taught himself to build windmills from library books.

Using junk from a scrap yard, he built a windmill that powered his Malawian village. He later constructed another windmil| to irrigate fields.

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25 Jan 2025 17:14

In 2013, a Belgian woman planned to pick up a friend in Brussels, just 90 miles from her home.

A GPS error led her to mistakenly drive 900 miles across five international borders, eventually ending up in Zagreb, Croatia. She realized her mistake two days later, by which time her son had already reported her missing.

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04 Jul 2024 13:51

A Man in Florida used a cell phone jammer on his way to work every day because he didn't want drivers around him to be distracted by their phones

He was fined $48,000 by the FCC when he was caught.

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28 May 2024 20:40

In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a 12' wall to keep the bad hombres out. In 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. It's now called New York. They took down the wall and built a street. It's called Wall Street

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14 May 2024 09:57

Japan has over 200 flavours of Kit Kats. They're exclusively created for different regions, cities, and seasons. There are some tasty-sounding ones like banana, blueberry cheesecake and Oreo ice cream, as well as some very questionable ones like baked potato, melon and cheese, wasabi, and vegetable juice.

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11 May 2024 17:41

Many haunted houses have been investigated and found to contain high levels of carbon monoxide or other poisons, which can cause hallucinations. The carbon monoxide theory explains why haunted houses are mostly older houses, which are more likely to contain aging and defective appliances.

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06 May 2024 06:11

Magnus Carlsen intentionally plays non-book "inaccuracies" during opening (moves he knows aren't the best), in order to force the game into a non-book position, so his opponents will have to think for themselves instead of going by memorized opening theory.

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03 Mar 2025 17:48

French gangsters in the early 1900s used a weapon known as the "Apache revolver" that functioned as a revolver, a knife, and brass knuckles.

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01 Mar 2025 07:27

Chinese government takes its officials and members of their families on prison tours on a regular basis to give officials an introduction to what awaits them if they should engage in corruption.

The tours include meet-and-greets with former government officials who were caught for corruption.

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25 Feb 2025 10:17

“Witzelsucht” is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations.

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22 Feb 2025 14:49

While snorkeling in South Africa, a man was accidentally swallowed by a Bryde's whale but was quickly spat out unharmed when the whale realized he was too large to swallow.

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20 Feb 2025 09:56

Surprisingly, Hydrogen sulfide, the gas responsible for the bad smell in farts, can potentially prevent serious health conditions like heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and dementia.

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16 Feb 2025 17:15

In the 1930s, there were self-parking cars that car drivers could parallel park.

Thanks to the fifth wheel that could move sideways and help the driver to sneak into the smallest space.

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05 Feb 2025 05:13

Only two U.S. states have never recorded a temperature above 100°F. One is Alaska, which is expected. The other, surprisingly is Hawaii.

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29 Jan 2025 07:55

Antibiotics are usually not effective for sore throats and common colds as they are caused by viruses rather than bacteria.

Taking antibiotics for such illnesses is considered more harmful than beneficial.

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27 Jan 2025 10:07

30 years ago, you had 15-17 minutes to escape a house fire.

Today, due to synthetic materials like plastics, petroleum-based products, and modern home designs with open floor plans and larger rooms, you only have 3-5 minutes.

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30 Jul 2024 19:41

The Glass of a beer bottle is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially UV.

To prevent the process of skunking from occurring, beer brewers have opted for darkly tinted glass. It's why you see so many beers in brown glass bottles today.

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11 Jun 2024 08:21

A Hungarian psychologist named Laszlo Polgar theorized that anyone could become a genius because geniuses were made and not born.

To prove this, he used his own daughters as experiments and trained them to become great at chess. The three Polgar sisters then became chess prodigies, and the youngest, Judit Polgar, become a grandmaster at just age 15.

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20 May 2024 20:08

In 1830, the first telegraph line connecting the cities of Paris and Lille was established in France. What's intriguing is that specifically trained pigeons were used to transmit messages, carrying miniature telegrams in pockets attached to special vests. This method of communication was considered highly effective, and the pigeon telegraphers successfully carried out their tasks until electric telegraph equipment became widely adopted.

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13 May 2024 05:30

Sony was founded in 1946. This electric rice cooker was their first product.

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08 May 2024 06:10

French fries and other deep-fried foods can cause dementia and lead to dementia.

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25 Apr 2024 14:41

There were 2,666 artificial satellites in Earth orbits in the summer of 2021, of which 154 belong to the U.S. military, about 100 to the Russian military, and 63 to the Chinese military.