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01 Dec 2024 15:23

The Harry Potter series is most banned book so far of the 21st century.

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30 Nov 2024 16:04

Alligators in Louisiana have learned to balance sticks on their snouts specifically during egret and heron nesting season, when the birds are actively searching for nest materials. This is the first known case of predators using lures based on seasonal prey behavior.

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30 Nov 2024 07:27

Diet coke floats in water, but regular ones sink because the sugar makes it more dense than water.

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29 Nov 2024 11:30

Male dolphins are known to separate female dolphins from their families and deny them food until they agree to mate.

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28 Nov 2024 19:47

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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27 Nov 2024 19:20

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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27 Nov 2024 09:16

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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26 Nov 2024 12:50

The “there are people starving in Africa so your suffering is invalid” argument has a name: Fallacy of relative privation.

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25 Nov 2024 17:50

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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25 Nov 2024 08:41

Kuchisabishii is a Japanese phrase that means "when you are not hungry, but you eat because your mouth is lonely."

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24 Nov 2024 08:40

Plastic magnets exist and their magnetic strength can be adjusted by shining different colored lights on it.

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23 Nov 2024 18:48

Mike Tyson markets an energy drink in Poland, aptly named Black Energy.

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23 Nov 2024 08:39

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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22 Nov 2024 12:58

Vanilla flowers only open once for 2-3 hours and require hand pollination to produce a bean.

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21 Nov 2024 20:05

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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01 Dec 2024 08:05

Pigeons are one of the most intelligent birds on the planet. Pigeons can recognize all 26 letters of the English language and are also capable of conceptualizing. Pigeons can differentiate between photographs and even differentiate between two different human beings in a photograph.

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30 Nov 2024 09:40

“Hiroshima shadows”

When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the intensity of the blast was of such intensity that it permanently burned shadows of people and objects into the ground.

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29 Nov 2024 20:45

Children who speak Mandarin are far more likely to develop perfect pitch because of tone association with words, and that one word can have up to four different meanings depending on the pitch at which it is spoken.

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29 Nov 2024 09:04

The Illuminati was an actual secret society whose goals were “to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.”

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28 Nov 2024 10:54

There is a pig species known as "Mangalitsa," native to Hungary, that has a coat resembling sheep wool.

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27 Nov 2024 12:39

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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26 Nov 2024 14:10

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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26 Nov 2024 06:33

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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25 Nov 2024 15:07

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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24 Nov 2024 17:17

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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24 Nov 2024 06:29

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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23 Nov 2024 13:53

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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22 Nov 2024 19:59

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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22 Nov 2024 08:22

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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21 Nov 2024 11:54

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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