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10 Jan 2025 08:45

The Walt Disney Company is the largest consumer of fireworks in the world and the second largest purchaser of explosive devices, right behind the U.S. military.

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09 Jan 2025 13:24

There is a genetic disorder that causes a constant feeling of starvation. Left unchecked, sufferers of Prader-Willi Syndrome can eat until their stomachs rupture.

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08 Jan 2025 19:24

There is a procedure called ‘Trauma Handshake’, in which two fingers are inserted into the rectum by a doctor in order to make sure that your brain still has control over your anal sphincter.

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08 Jan 2025 08:03

A snake’s heart can move around its body to protect it from harm when the snake has eaten a large prey.

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07 Jan 2025 15:26

Gorillas can purr, just as cats do.

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06 Jan 2025 17:36

There is an Octopus species (Graneledone boreopacifica) that cares for her eggs for 53 months, apparently not eating during this time and then dies. This brooding period is the longest known for any animal.

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06 Jan 2025 12:25

People with anxiety perceive the world differently-their brain lumps both safe and unsafe things together and labels them all unsafe.

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05 Jan 2025 17:19

In athletics, if you move as the gun sounds, you are considered to have false started, as the human brain cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds.

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04 Jan 2025 11:44

In Ancient Rome, a gladiator was only someone who fought against other men. If you were in the arena facing wild beasts, you were called a bestiarii. There were two types of bestiarii: those condemned to die in such a manner, and those doing it voluntarily, for pay or for glory.

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03 Jan 2025 13:03

There is a commercial advertising technique called “Two cunts in a Kitchen”, typically used in ads targeting women for things like feminine hygiene products

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03 Jan 2025 08:15

There is a disorder called Body Integrity Identity Disorder where sufferers are at war with their bodies and they seek to sever limbs. Sometimes it has led people to injure themselves with guns or chain saws in desperate efforts to force surgical amputations.

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02 Jan 2025 13:45

A shortfin mako shark, the world’s fastest shark, can leap approximately 30 feet high in the air.

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01 Jan 2025 13:59

In the Victorian Era, beards were prescribed by doctors to help keep men healthy.

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31 Dec 2024 11:19

The first actual computer “bug” was a dead moth which was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.

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30 Dec 2024 09:37

Meditation reduces the need for sleep, in terms of maintaining alertness and reaction times.

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09 Jan 2025 19:11

Many common disease causing bacteria are actually harmless bacteria that have been infected by a virus.

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09 Jan 2025 09:02

Nien Nunb, a minor character in the film Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, speaks Kikuyu and Kalenjin, the languages of Kenya's two largest tribes.

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08 Jan 2025 12:55

A new species of spider was discovered in Morocco that will do cartwheels, or flip like a gymnast, to move faster when hunting prey.

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08 Jan 2025 06:14

The common spiral depiction of the Milky Way Galaxy used in media is actually another galaxy: Messier 74. Because we dwell within the Milky Way Galaxy, it is not yet possible for us to take a picture of its spiral structure from the outside.

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07 Jan 2025 08:50

A lower IQ as a child correlates to higher chances of obesity as an adult.

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06 Jan 2025 15:40

The cholesterol you eat has very little impact on how much cholesterol is in your blood.

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05 Jan 2025 18:22

Prior to Westerners coming to Japan, there had been a ban on red meat. The Emperor repealed the ban because he believed it was responsible for the Westerners’ greater size.

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05 Jan 2025 08:23

The “AR” in AR-15 is a brand name and stands for “ArmaLite Rifle” not “assault rifle.

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04 Jan 2025 09:21

Unfertilized bumblebee eggs become males, and only fertilized eggs grow into females and queens.

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03 Jan 2025 10:59

A form of autoimmune encephalitis mimics the symptoms of demonic possession, and it has only been identified in the last 10 years. It affects mostly young women and can come on with no pre warnings whatsoever.

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02 Jan 2025 19:05

Pinworms are parasitic worms which make your ass itch at night when they come crawling out of your anus to lay their eggs. This makes you scratch your ass and helps these sticky eggs spread, often to your own breakfast, thereby repeating the cycle.

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02 Jan 2025 10:43

A star discovered 75 light-years away, the brown dwarf star CFBDSIR 1458+10B is no warmer than a freshly brewed cup of coffee.

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31 Dec 2024 15:20

Goats are one of the reasons behind the desertification of the middle east.

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31 Dec 2024 05:37

The Stoned Ape Theory, which is a controversial theory from Terence McKenna which states that a lot of our advanced human evolution came as a result of the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms by our primate ancestors.

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30 Dec 2024 09:33

The human brain tends to prefer lazy thinking and will opt for habitual responses over active thinking @googlefactss #psychology