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When elephants ‘dance’, they are mentally ill and depressed from confinement and restriction from freedom and socializing.
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If someone is having a heart attack, they will need to chew the aspirin and not just swallow it. It gets the aspirin into your bloodstream faster.
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Tomatoes, potatoes, paprika, peppers, and eggplant are part of a family called nightshade foods, which contain a toxin called solanine. If ingested in large quantities can cause hallucinations.
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The Iranian government can, and will, sentence its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam.
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Contrary to the popular thinking, wolves are not dominated by an “Alpha Wolf” that is the most aggressive male, or male-female pairing, of the pack. Rather, they have found that wolf packs are similar to human families, and there is little aggression or fights for “dominance.”
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Plants can recognize their siblings and give them preferential treatment, competing less for valuable resources like root space than when surrounded by plants that are strangers.
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Under the Geneva Convention, it’s a war crime to change another country’s weather.
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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). The caviar is harvested from female fish through a milking-like process.
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Adermatoglyphia is a disease where people are born without fingerprints. It is exceedingly rare, affecting only five known extended families worldwide
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Croissants are Austrian, not French.
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It was customary in England to give bees a slice of wedding cake and to inform them of a funeral otherwise they believed the bees would stop making honey.
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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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If you leave lime juice on your hands on a sunny day, your skin can get second degree burns and be discolored for years. It’s called “margarita dermatitis” because people often get it while making margaritas outside.
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Cats have scent glands on their face that release a pheromone when they rub onto us to say that they are ours, and we are theirs.
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“Gotham”, as a nickname for New York City, was coined by Washington Irving in 1807 and it literally means “Goat’s Town.”
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Lesotho is the only country on Earth to lie completely above 1000 meters in elevation.
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Dust / dirt devils are called “djin” meaning “genie” or “devil” in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, and Jordan. This is where the mythical genie came from and why genies are typically depicted without legs.
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Whole milk is only 3.5% fat and is calorically very similar to the “healthier” option of 2% milk
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Box Jellyfish venom is so powerful, human victims have been known to go into shock and drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore.
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In 2006 a woman’s anus was severely burned after she was struck by the lighting in the mouth, which passed through her body and exited through the anus.
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Approximately 1/3 of people have jaws that pop or click when they are opened all the way.
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Male alligators make a rumbling sound so low it can’t be heard by humans and makes the water dance around them.
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Doctors in Ancient Rome used an early form of electrotherapy to successfully treat neurological conditions such as epilepsy and migraines. They administered the charges by placing electric torpedo fish on the patient’s head
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When monkeys are taught to recognize themselves in the mirror, the first thing they do after recognizing themselves in the mirror is to inspect their genitals.
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There is a Polish celebration on Easter Monday 'Śmigus-Dyngus' (Wet Monday) that involves boys throwing water on girls and spanking them with pussy willows.
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The first functional sewing machine was invented in France in 1830 by Barthelemy Thimonnier, a tailor. The inventor was nearly killed by a group of angry French tailors. They burnt down his garment factory because they feared the invention would render them unemployed.
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It is a war crime to attack a parachuter bailing from a distressed aircraft.
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A cat named Tibbles once started bringing dead birds to a lighthouse that were discovered to be a new species, the Stephens Island wren . They went extinct shortly after and Tibbles the cat was accused of being the only single living creature to eradicate a species.
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Before the Western slave trade got going, North African pirates used to regularly kidnap Britons and other Europeans for sale as slaves in Africa. It is estimated that about 1.25 million Europeans were sold into the African slave trade between 1500-1800.
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