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18 Jan 2025 20:41

The average price of an expedition to Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is $50,000.

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17 Jan 2025 22:05

The Satiyaa community is a gypsy tribe in the Indian state of Rajasthan that celebrates death as one of the happiest events in their lives, while treating births as occasions of great grief.

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17 Jan 2025 13:07

Whales are sometimes born with a leg or two

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16 Jan 2025 13:34

Firewalking is not achieved through meditation or a higher spiritual state, but that anyone can do it because hot coals are a poor conductor of heat and therefore will not transfer the heat quickly enough to burn you.

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15 Jan 2025 19:00

Codex Seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an unknown, parallel world, written in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet.

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15 Jan 2025 08:21

In WW1 British spies would use semen as invisible in for their letters.

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14 Jan 2025 11:38

In the Old Testament, Yahweh (God) actually sues Israel for breach of contract (the Sinai covenant). It is the only instance of God initiating a lawsuit against humans in the Bible. This is known as a "covenant lawsuit".

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13 Jan 2025 20:22

The DNA within each cell is almost 2 m long, but it is constrained in no more than 6 micro meters.

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13 Jan 2025 08:17

The Teton mountains in Wyoming USA, were named by French trappers who thought they resembled breasts (teton is French slang for breast) so Grand Teton National Park translates to Big Breasts National Park.

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12 Jan 2025 18:36

Anwar Sadat of Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979, the first Arab nation to do so. For this, Sadat won the Nobel Peace prize, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League, and Sadat was assassinated.

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11 Jan 2025 19:10

Crows recognize human faces and hold grudges against ones they do not like.

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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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18 Jan 2025 11:06

Tonsils are strategically placed near the airway in order to “catch” incoming bacteria and viruses. They often become infected as their main purpose is to sample these bodies and build up immunity so that the much more vulnerable lungs are able to fight off infection.

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17 Jan 2025 19:23

Inbreeding and the rare genetic condition called methemoglobinemia resulted in a blue-skinned family in Kentucky named the Fugates.

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17 Jan 2025 08:40

Applying a male's underarm sweat to a female's lips is known to help women relax, boost their mood and help regulate their menstrual cycle.

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16 Jan 2025 07:44

The distress calls of baby mammals share similar elements across species. A study in the Canadian prairies showed that mother deers rushed towards recorded cries not only of infant deers, but also those of fur seals, dogs, cats and humans

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15 Jan 2025 12:49

Humans actually possess the protein (cryptochromes) needed for the detection of magnetic fields. But our brains don’t seem to have any way to decode the information.

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14 Jan 2025 19:07

A lungfish can spend 4 years out of water. This species gets approximately 90 percent of its oxygen from air. It digs its way into mud and surrounds itself with a secretion that will allow it to survive for up to four years, although it's usually only for a matter of months before the waters return.

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14 Jan 2025 08:52

In 2006, NASA admitted that they no longer had the original video tapes of the moon landing because they recorded over them.

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13 Jan 2025 10:22

The Hairy Ball theorem dictates that, if there is wind on Earth, there must always be a cyclone or anticyclone somewhere.

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12 Jan 2025 20:43

‘The Napoleonic Code’ gave women the right to divorce, freedom of religion, forbade privileges based on birth, and instituted much more. It’s regarded as one of the few documents that have influenced the world.

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12 Jan 2025 11:03

Bug zappers can spread a mist containing insect parts up to 2.1 m from the device, meaning air around the bug zapper can become contaminated by bacteria and viruses that can be inhaled by people or settle on food.

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10 Jan 2025 14:53

It took 23.5 tonnes of ancient, buried plants to produce 1 litre of petrol.

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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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