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24 Feb 2025 19:38

Your veins look blue because subcutaneous fat only allows blue light to penetrate skin all the way to veins, so this is the color that is reflected back.

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23 Feb 2025 11:26

The 8-hour workday was devised so that workers could evenly divide 24 hours between: “Eight hours’ labor, Eight hours’ recreation, Eight hours’ rest”

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22 Feb 2025 14:25

Sprite was originally introduced as a mixer for whiskey and vodka

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21 Feb 2025 16:38

When Amish couples are dating, part of the ritual is “Bed Courting” in which they lay in bed and cuddle, sometimes for up to a year.

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20 Feb 2025 18:52

George Washington, the first US president, was bled to death by doctors, who were treating him for epiglottitis. Bloodletting was a common medical practice in those times in order to remove “dirty blood,” when in reality it only weakens the patient. Half or more of his blood was removed within a few hours

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20 Feb 2025 07:32

In 1978 D.C. comics published Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.

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19 Feb 2025 13:43

Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.

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18 Feb 2025 11:44

It is Unwise to shower during a thunderstorm because lightning can travel through your plumbing. The risk might be less with plastic pipes than with metal pipes.

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18 Feb 2025 08:35

Tomatoes, potatoes, paprika, peppers, and eggplant are part of a family called nightshade foods, which contain a toxin called solanine. If ingested in large quantities can cause hallucinations.

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17 Feb 2025 11:02

During the 1920s there was an orchestra in the Soviet Union that was led by a committee instead of a conductor because the idea of a conductor was against Marxist ideals

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16 Feb 2025 19:26

Everyone in Iceland pays church tax, and the payment of those unaffiliated with a church goes to the University of Iceland.

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16 Feb 2025 09:51

In 2001, Russia had more abortions than live births, with 2.11 million abortions performed compared to 1.31 million live births.

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15 Feb 2025 17:30

When a born deaf person thinks, they feel themselves signing in their head.

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14 Feb 2025 10:32

In Korea, wisdom teeth are called “love teeth” in reference to young adulthood and the pain of first love.

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14 Feb 2025 06:02

Valentine’s Day is associated with romance because, during the middle Ages, it was believed that birds paired couples in mid-February. The holiday is literally for the birds.

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24 Feb 2025 08:30

In Buddhism, wrathful deities are enlightened beings who take on wrathful forms in order to lead sentient beings to enlightenment.

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23 Feb 2025 06:57

In Japan, it is so common for people to die alone undiscovered for long periods of time that they have a term for it “Kodokushi”. “Their bodies lie in places undiscovered for long periods of time, and because of this, thick, dark stains shaped like a human body are left where their bodies once lay.”

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22 Feb 2025 11:20

Lake Kivu is one of three lakes that undergoes limnic eruptions. These sudden releases of carbon dioxide kill every human and animal around the lake. It is estimated that the lake erupts about once every thousand years. Currently, about two million people live on the shores of Lake Kivu.

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21 Feb 2025 07:48

History has proven that whenever a Lion and a Tiger in captivity get into a fight, the Tiger almost always wins.

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20 Feb 2025 14:54

All of the critical smartphone technology including the battery, the touchscreen, and the multi-core processor is a direct result of multiple governments' research funding. Without this funding, smartphones would’ve been far more expensive, and taken much longer to develop

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19 Feb 2025 20:09

The Copsey Brothers who were the first men to build a jail in Lower Lake, California, were also the first to occupy it, after celebrating its completion too enthusiastically in a local saloon. They also were the first to escape it, after they realized that they had forgotten to nail down the roof.

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19 Feb 2025 09:12

In Suwon, a city close to Seoul, South Korea constructed a theme park in 2012 called the Restroom Cultural Park, also known as Mr. Toilet House, that is all about toilets and the waste that goes in them.

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18 Feb 2025 10:05

The human womb is the oxygen equivalent of the top of Mount Everest, designed to keep the fetus asleep 95% of the time.

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17 Feb 2025 15:31

In the 1920s, people feared that crossword puzzles would contribute to illiteracy.

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17 Feb 2025 09:14

The ‘Banana massacre’ occurred in 1928. It was a massacre where up to 3000 striking United Fruit Company workers were killed by Colombian forces after the US threatened to invade if they would not protect American interests.

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16 Feb 2025 10:10

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16 Feb 2025 08:44

There are certain organs in human body that have “immune privilege”, and will never be rejected in the case of a transplant. These include the eyes, brain, and testicles.

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15 Feb 2025 09:31

Goat milk digests in only 20 minutes while cow milk takes up to 2-3 hours to digest

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14 Feb 2025 09:26

When our inner voice speaks in our head, it is accompanied by subtle muscle movements from our larynx.

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13 Feb 2025 14:50

Vikings used ravens to navigate. They brought ravens aboard their ships, then released them and sailed in the same direction to find land. The raven was so important to them that it became the symbol on their flag. This practice of releasing ravens was continued into the 18th century.

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