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08 Sep 2024 11:43

Your nose constantly goes through “nasal cycles” where the 2 nasal cavities alternate being partially congested to enhance your sense of smell and help lighten the workload.

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07 Sep 2024 17:09

The words "lesbian" and "sapphic" both come from this legendary woman named Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos

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07 Sep 2024 11:51

Babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.

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06 Sep 2024 18:41

Taking fenugreek not only promotes lactation in nursing mothers, but it also makes sweat and urine smell like maple syrup.

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06 Sep 2024 10:35

There’s a very poor village in Paraguay that has turned items found in the dump into instruments for their youth orchestra.

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05 Sep 2024 21:51

During the segregation in South Africa, there was a pencil test where on would be classified as non-white/non-European. One would put a pencil into their hair and shake their head, when it fell out, you were deemed white.

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05 Sep 2024 11:55

Female sand tiger sharks get pregnant with up to 50 embryos. When one of the embryos reaches some 10 cm (4 inches) in length, it eats all the smaller embryos so that only one large embryo remains.

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04 Sep 2024 20:40

The hacker group Anonymous once sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges.

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04 Sep 2024 11:59

There is just one insect species native to Antarctica called Belgica Antarctica.

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03 Sep 2024 21:17

The “folds” in a Chefs Hat are meant to represent the many different ways the chef can cook an egg.

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03 Sep 2024 09:53

In Mongolia, it was believed that sprinkling powdered wolf rectum on food was thought to cure hemorrhoids.

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02 Sep 2024 18:27

When Australia stopped using the pound as its currency, some of the suggested names for the new currency were austral, the oz, the boomer, the roo, the kanga, the emu, the digger, the Quid, the dinkum and the Ming before the government ultimately settled on the Australian dollar.

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02 Sep 2024 10:34

The earliest documentation of abortion is from 1550 BCE.

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01 Sep 2024 22:53

The oldest garden that has been tended to continuously is 973 years old, in China, and one of 50 surviving gardens called the Classical Gardens of Suzhou, founded in the 6th Century.

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01 Sep 2024 08:18

Despite its free-market image, all the land in Singapore is owned by the government, and 85 percent of housing is supplied by the government’s own housing corporation. 22 percent of GDP is produced by state-owned enterprises including Singapore Airlines.

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08 Sep 2024 10:42

Sloths can swim 3 times faster than they can move on land and can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.

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07 Sep 2024 16:44

Some of the shooting stars we see are actually astronaut poop burning up in the atmosphere.

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07 Sep 2024 08:35

Bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals.

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06 Sep 2024 11:01

Hot water freezes faster than cold water and the effect is called “the Mpemba Effect”. It’s named after Tanzanian Erasto Mpemba who was originally ridiculed for bringing it up in class after noticing his warmer ice cream mix was freezing before the cooler batch.

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06 Sep 2024 09:12

European Royal Families had a “Court Jew” to handle finances and negotiate loans since usury was forbidden by the Catholic Church.

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05 Sep 2024 13:40

In a 2011 attempt to reduce poo on the streets, anyone handing a bag of dog poop in New Taipei City, Taiwan, was entered into a lottery for gold ingots and other prizes.

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05 Sep 2024 09:44

Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The scent is from water interacting with plant oils.

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04 Sep 2024 15:28

Honey badgers emits smelly, suffocating secretions from its anal glands to fumigate hives, causing bees to flee and leave their honey for the honey badger

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04 Sep 2024 09:23

Many English words used to be spelled phonetically (e.g. debt was ‘det’) until some scholars purposely added silent letters to make them look more like Greek or Latin words, sometimes erroneously.

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03 Sep 2024 10:42

There is enough water in Lake Superior to flood the entire landmasses of North and South America to a depth of 1 foot. It contains over 3 quadrillion gallons of fresh water.

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03 Sep 2024 06:59

Morning sickness is believed to have evolved as a trait to protect the fetus against toxins ingested by the mother and women with no morning sickness are more likely to miscarry.

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02 Sep 2024 12:56

Early light bulbs used bamboo filaments covered in carbon.

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02 Sep 2024 08:50

Slavery wasn’t abolished in Ethiopia until 1942.

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01 Sep 2024 10:18

One theory why garlic was thought to repel vampires was that it’s an antibiotic, and since vampirism was often thought to be a disease, it was harmful to them. Another theory is that garlic was believed to repel mosquitoes, and since they’re both bloodsuckers, vampires would also be repelled.

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31 Aug 2024 21:12

"Essential Oils" are not essential in that they are necessary, but because they carry the "essence" of the plant. However, there are "Essential Fatty Acids" that are necessary for humans

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