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29 Dec 2024 20:23

In Spain, it is a tradition for hunters to kill their Spanish Greyhound hunting dogs at the end of the hunting season. Young healthy dogs are hung, shot, maimed and/or strangled and left to die.

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29 Dec 2024 07:14

“Mummy Brown” was a once-popular paint pigment made from ground-up Egyptian mummies. It was produced well into the 20th century and only disappeared when the manufacturers ran out of mummies.

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28 Dec 2024 12:29

The first living creatures to go into orbit and return safely were 40 mice, two rats, a rabbit, some fruit flies, plants, and 2 dogs.

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27 Dec 2024 20:02

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27 Dec 2024 14:06

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, a native of Brazil, renounced his US citizenship in 2011 to avoid paying $700 million in taxes.

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26 Dec 2024 15:53

In 2010, there was a traffic jam in Beijing, China that lasted 9 days and 100km.

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26 Dec 2024 08:49

Mussolini was expelled from school when he was 10 for stabbing a classmate. He did the same thing at his next school.

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25 Dec 2024 17:34

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25 Dec 2024 10:12

Spider’s webs are traditional Polish Christmas decorations, as the spiders wove a blanket for Jesus according to a polish legend.

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24 Dec 2024 19:24

The first known illegal act on the internet was committed in 1973 by one of the first ARPANET engineers. He sent a request for return of his electric razor following a conference in England. At that time, personal use of the internet was unlawful

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24 Dec 2024 07:05

Due to its placement on a prominent tectonic fault, Tokyo is referred to by geologists as ‘the city waiting to die’.

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23 Dec 2024 14:38

A hen turns her egg nearly 50 times each day to keep the yolk from sticking to the side.

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23 Dec 2024 07:22

The world record for the most non-stop push-ups is 10,507 , set by a man named Minoru Yoshida in 1980.

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22 Dec 2024 16:36

Along with being accused of cannibalism, early Christians in the Roman Empire were considered atheists because they denied all the other gods.

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21 Dec 2024 20:01

Jupiter’s gravity will eventually cause Mercury to crash into the Sun or to be ejected from the Solar System. This could happen in 3–4 billion years when the two planets fall into sync and Jupiter's gravitational tugs accumulate.

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29 Dec 2024 11:06

The farther back you sit on an airplane, the better are your odds of survival in the event of a crash. Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.

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28 Dec 2024 15:32

The light bulb is the universal symbol for a new idea because of Felix the Cat cartoons.

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28 Dec 2024 08:52

In order to be officially considered a new element, an isotope must have a lifetime of at least 10^-14 seconds, as this is approximately how long it takes for a nucleus to grab hold of its electrons and become chemically stable.

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27 Dec 2024 19:56

Synsepalum dulcificum, also known as “Miracle Fruit” if consumed makes sour foods taste sweet. In the 1970’s, an attempt was made to commercialize this fruit for this very purpose, but failed. There are accusations that the sugar industry sabotaged their research to prevent loss of business.

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27 Dec 2024 08:45

There is a pill that makes you poop gold and it is sold for $425. They are completely edible and are ideal for people who want to bling out their feces.

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26 Dec 2024 12:33

The Earth’s day/night cycle is growing longer year-by-year and 620 million years ago, the Earth day was 21.9 hours long.

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25 Dec 2024 18:31

The most expensive Christmas tree was constructed in 2010. It was worth £6,975,880($8,660,206) and was on display at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. It had 181 pieces of jewelry adorning it.

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25 Dec 2024 17:24

Sea ice is drinkable because it has a tenth as much salt as sea water does. This is because ice will not incorporate sea salt into its crystal structure.

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25 Dec 2024 08:03

The word Christmas comes from the old English meaning Christ’s mass (Cristes maesse).

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24 Dec 2024 13:58

A blue whale can consume as many calories in a single mouthful as an average person consumes in roughly 180 days

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23 Dec 2024 21:25

The US city of Philadelphia is known as “The City of Brotherly Love” because it’s composed of the Greek words for love (phileo) and brother (adelphos).

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23 Dec 2024 09:23

In 2015, the world’s first Christmas card commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in 1843 sold for £8,469 ($10,513.84). The hand-colored card pictured a family drinking wine.

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22 Dec 2024 19:25

Justin Bieber was banned from China in 2017 in order to ‘purify’ the nation.

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22 Dec 2024 14:59

Calculations requiring more than 10^120 bits are impossible because the universe hasn't existed long enough for such a process to complete, even with near-instantaneous data transmission @googlefactss #funfact

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21 Dec 2024 18:09

A co-founder of the Weather Channel said that global warming is a “scam”.

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