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23 Jan 2025 11:35

The Tempest Prognosticator, also known as the leech barometer, was a 19th century device that kept 12 leeches inside small bottles. They attempted to climb out of the bottles when a storm was approaching, causing a bell to ring. The number of times the bell was struck indicated the likelihood of a storm.

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22 Jan 2025 20:26

Each silk strand in a corn on the cob connects to an individual kernel of corn.

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22 Jan 2025 06:22

In 2018 a featureless app called “I am rich” was released on the app store for $999.99 (equivalent to $1,456.82 in 2025). 8 people purchased it before apple removed it the next day.

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21 Jan 2025 10:03

In April 2013, someone hacked the Associated Press’s Twitter account and tweeted that two bombs had exploded at the White House. The stock market crashed within seconds, only to recover the same day once the tweet was discovered to be a hoax.

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20 Jan 2025 20:17

Australia is the only continent without any glaciers.

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20 Jan 2025 11:59

The word breakfast comes from the Middle English phrase breken fast, which means "to break one's fast". It's an amalgam of the words break and fast. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night.

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19 Jan 2025 18:07

There is a positive correlation between vitamin D and testosterone levels in men. The more sunlight exposure a man gets the more likely it is that he has elevated testosterone levels.

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19 Jan 2025 07:59

Russians have a word “Zapoi” to describe several days of continuous drunkenness during which one withdraws from society.

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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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23 Jan 2025 09:43

Male cheetahs have a special bark that causes female cheetahs to ovulate "on demand."

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22 Jan 2025 12:33

In 1938 Mexico was the only country to protest against the German annexation of Austria.

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21 Jan 2025 17:40

Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless

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21 Jan 2025 08:17

A “dash” is 1/8 of a teaspoon, a “pinch” is 1/16 of a teaspoon, and a “smidgen” is 1/32 of a teaspoon

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20 Jan 2025 15:02

If a Catholic priest reveals anything someone confessed to him for any reason at all, he is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church and can only be forgiven by the Pope.

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20 Jan 2025 08:35

The word “honeymoon” originated from the tradition of giving newly weds a month’s supply of mead on their wedding night.

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19 Jan 2025 16:02

Cephalotes varians or the Turtle Ant is a species of ant whose head has evolved into a “door” that can block the entrance to its nest.

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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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