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25 Aug 2024 13:43

Men and women are 14 percent more likely to die on their birthday than any other day of the year. This effect was strongest in people aged 60 and older, who were up to 18 percent more likely to die on their birthday.

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25 Aug 2024 10:23

The character of Rocky was based upon a real life boxer who was not expected to go 3 rounds against Muhammad Ali. To everyone's surprise, he went 15 rounds.

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25 Aug 2024 08:23

Flames conduct electricity.

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24 Aug 2024 18:25

Brazil has the biggest Japanese community outside of Japan.

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24 Aug 2024 11:39

The pH scale is between 0 and 14, but several acids are below 0 and several bases are above 14! @googlefactss #funfact
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23 Aug 2024 20:33

There are as many smokers in China as as there are people in the United States

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23 Aug 2024 10:25

Approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India.

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22 Aug 2024 17:20

A nuru massage, originating from Japan, is a full body-to-body massage using an ultra-slippery gel usually made out of seaweed. It invokes the sensation of sex without actively engaging in intercourse

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22 Aug 2024 12:43

English words for livestock (cow, sheep, chicken) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton, poultry) are French-based. This is because the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats.

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22 Aug 2024 09:00

Appendix may not just be vestigial in humans. A 2007 study suggested that appendices serve as safe havens for “good bacteria,” when illness flushes other bacteria from the intestines. Afterward, the useful bacteria can quickly repopulate the intestines.

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21 Aug 2024 12:34

A woman in the US filed a lawsuit on an insurance firm after claiming she contracted an STI as a result of having sex in her boyfriend's car (which is insured by the firm). She won and was awarded $5,200,000

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21 Aug 2024 08:09

In men diabetes can cause erectile dysfunction, over time it can lead to irreversible damage and a circumstance where ED drugs like Viagra no longer work.

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20 Aug 2024 18:36

The creator of Wonder Woman, William Marston, was a psychologist who was famous for inventing the lie detector. He was also a BDSM enthusiast and a firm believer in the superiority of women, stating that Wonder Woman was an allegory for the type of woman he believed should run the world.

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20 Aug 2024 08:29

It takes around 20 minutes to preheat an oven.

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19 Aug 2024 15:54

Private and commercial paternity tests are banned in France. Paternity tests may only be conducted by order of a judge typically to assess criminal guilt or involvement.

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25 Aug 2024 11:21

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system. Due to the intensity of its rotation the planet is flat at the poles and bulges at the equator. It takes less than 10 hours for it to complete a rotation on its axis.

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25 Aug 2024 09:30

There is a programming language called INTERCAL which has keywords like IGNORE, PLEASE, FORGET. If you don’t use PLEASE enough times while coding, compiler rejects the code.

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24 Aug 2024 19:09

There is a rare blood group known as ‘h/h’ or ‘Oh’ which was first discovered in 1952 at Mumbai, India (Formerly Bombay), hence christening another name ‘Bombay Blood Group’. This blood is so rare that only 4 in a million would have it globally; however, every 1 in 10,000 have it in Bombay.

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24 Aug 2024 17:39

The term “nutritionist” is not legally protected nor regulated, so anyone can advertise themselves as a nutritionist regardless of education or credentials. Whereas the title of “dietitian” or specifically “registered dietitian” legally requires education via credited curriculum and passing a registration exam.

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24 Aug 2024 06:16

A protein called TRPM8 is what causes your brain to think something is colder than it is after eating something with mint.

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23 Aug 2024 12:36

Redheads tend to need more anesthesia than those with darker hair, because of their MC1R gene. This gene not only influences a person's pigmentation, but it's been speculated to also influence their pain perception.

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23 Aug 2024 08:35

In 2009, the President and Cabinet of the Maldives held a meeting underwater in SCUBA gear sign a declaration calling for global cuts in carbon emissions. The Maldives is expected to disappear under rising seawater this century.

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22 Aug 2024 14:04

Chinese vampires are depicted in movies as hopping around because in the Qing Dynasty people used to pay ‘corpse carriers’ to return dead migrants to their hometowns. They’d been transported at night lined up on bamboo poles, which would flex as the carriers ran, making the bodies appear to bounce.

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22 Aug 2024 10:11

Fast walkers may live up to 15 years longer than dawdlers, regardless of their weight. The findings suggest that physical fitness is a better indicator of life expectancy than body mass index.

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21 Aug 2024 16:36

Kevin Budden was an amateur Australian herpetologist and snake hunter who caught a deadly taipan by hand and hitchhiked to town still holding the snake. He lost his grip and was bitten, but bagged the snake and made the driver promise to get it to researchers. Kevin died the next day, but the snake was used to create the first taipan antivenom.

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21 Aug 2024 10:48

The UK’s oldest joke is a crude riddle that features in the Exeter Codex and dates back to the 10th Century AD - What hangs at a man’s thigh and wants to poke the hole that it’s often poked before?

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21 Aug 2024 07:04

Venus fly traps will grow their own flower stalks long in order to save the pollinator bugs from being trapped and eaten.

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20 Aug 2024 13:33

There is a town in Upstate New York called Neversink, Ironically, the original Neversink was permanently flooded when the Neversink reservoir was built.

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20 Aug 2024 07:34

There is a mountain in Australia named Mt. Disappointment, named as the explorers found the view from it subpar and wanted to reflect that.

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19 Aug 2024 11:15

The Sateré-Mawé tribe coming of age ritual involves gathering bullet ants, weaving them into a glove, sedating them, and then putting on the glove an hour later so that when the ants wake up, they are furious. Boys have to do this about 20 times at age 13 before becoming a man.

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