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Denmark was the first country to be fully transplanted into the Minecraft games, the government hoped it could help make lessons more fun for students until hackers ‘bombed’ Minecraft version of Denmark in cyber-attack.
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The Moon provides the Earth with stable climate. Without the Moon, Earth’s axial tilt with respect to the Sun could fluctuate erratically (by as much as 90 degrees), disrupting the seasons.
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The British were not always heavy tea drinkers. They only switched to tea after an introduced plant rust wiped out most of the world’s coffee crops in the late 1800s.
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The “there are people starving in Africa so your suffering is invalid” argument has a name: Fallacy of relative privation.
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There is a condition called Neurasthenia, aka Americanitis, involving anxiety, fatigue, flatulence, and mild depression, caused by white-collar jobs and a competitive business environment.
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Kuchisabishii is a Japanese phrase that means "when you are not hungry, but you eat because your mouth is lonely."
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Plastic magnets exist and their magnetic strength can be adjusted by shining different colored lights on it.
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Mike Tyson markets an energy drink in Poland, aptly named Black Energy.
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Proboscis monkeys are known in Indonesia as “Dutch Monkeys” because Indonesians remarked that the Dutch colonizers often had similarly large bellies and noses.
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Vanilla flowers only open once for 2-3 hours and require hand pollination to produce a bean.
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In France, a lawyer sought out a 90-year-old lady who agreed to give him her apartment if he paid her $500 each month for the rest of her life. She became the oldest living person ever , living for another 30 years and even outliving the lawyer who had by then had paid her $180,000- twice the value of the apartment.
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If poison ivy is burned and the smoke then inhaled, rash will appear on the lining of the lungs, causing extreme pain and possibly fatal respiratory difficulty.
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Coffee makes the end of your intestine start contracting, like you are prepping for poop even if you have none. That why so many people want to poop after.
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A fig tree tricks a certain species of wasp to pollinate it, sends it down a small passage in the fruit where its wings are ripped off, after which it is digested by enzymes. Figs eat wasps.
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There is a pig species known as "Mangalitsa," native to Hungary, that has a coat resembling sheep wool.
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If you plant an apple seed, the resulting tree will not produce the same kinds of apples. In fact, they will taste significantly different and may be unsuitable for human consumption. If you want an apple to be the same as its parent, you need to plant a branch.
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There was an appetite suppressant candy called AYDS pronounce (AIDS) in the 80’s with the slogan ‘Lose weight deliciously with the aid of AYDS’.
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In the 6th century a Swedish king, to demonstrate his low opinion of the Danes sent a small dog to Denmark and officially made it their king. Appointing dogs to rule the conquered became a tradition in Scandinavia. They were given thrones and mansions and routinely signed paw-print decrees.
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In the 17th century, the Roman Catholic Church ruled that the beaver was a fish so that the general prohibition on the consumption of meat on Fridays during Lent did not apply to beaver meat.
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There is a plant called the Skeleton Flower whose petals turn transparent when wet and then revert back to white when dry.
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Buddhism predicts its own demise. We are currently in the second thousand years of the Dharma-Ending stage and there are 9000 years left before all Buddhist teachings have been lost or forgotten.
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Axe advertising was targeted to work on insecure males. The ads were so successful that the brand eventually backpedaled, as the brand was being too closely associated with their target group.
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If you shout or make a sound that is 1,100 dB, it will create a black hole destroying our galaxy.
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Russian lawyers once threatened to sue Warner Bros. because they believed that the Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets' character "Dobby" closely resembled the current Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Gray whales mate in threes; the non-dominant male just acts as a brace to hold the female in place so that she doesn’t float away.
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Herpes can immunize you against the Bubonic Plague.
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Loopholes were small slits in castle walls that let archers fire arrows, and the modern use of the term reflects the apparent contradiction between the intent of an impenetrable wall and having small holes in it that allow defenders to gain an advantage.
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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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To be certified as “bear-resistant”, a container needs to survive a 60-minute mauling by a grizzly bear.
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