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08 Mar 2025 15:41

“Hocus Pocus” may have been coined by Protestants to mock the Catholic transubstantiation incantation used to turn bread and wine into flesh and blood, “hoc est corpus.”

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06 Mar 2025 22:34

There is a song from Hungary, with versions by Billie Holiday and numerous other authors, that is associated with 20 suicides including its composer, Rezso Seress.

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05 Mar 2025 18:33

When our solar system was forming, Jupiter gained enough mass that its self-gravity became strong enough to pull in a lot of interstellar gas, but not enough to start fusion. If this had happened our solar system would have been a binary star system (two suns) and for this reason Jupiter is sometimes referred to as a “failed star.”

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05 Mar 2025 09:01

There are more people in the Tokyo metropolitan area than in Canada.

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04 Mar 2025 14:20

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.

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03 Mar 2025 13:03

When elephants ‘dance’, they are mentally ill and depressed from confinement and restriction from freedom and socializing.

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02 Mar 2025 21:52

A meerkat is believed to be a ’sun angel’ in the Zimbabwe and Zambian regions of Africa. It is said that the ‘sun angels’ are sent by the gods to protect villages.

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01 Mar 2025 20:33

The roaring lion sound effects in the original 1994 Lion King, were actually performed by voice actor Frank Welker growling into a metallic trash can.

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01 Mar 2025 16:52

An Uncut footage of an underwater atomic blast conducted by the United States in the Pacific as part of "Operation Hardtack", a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted from April to August 1958 at the height of the Cold War.

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01 Mar 2025 07:52

There is a fish called the barreleye that has a transparent skull so that it can have a wider range of vision to look out for food and possible dangers.

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28 Feb 2025 13:24

The eye color of owls indicates what time of day the owls prefer to be active.

Nocturnal owls: Have dark eyes, like the Barred Owl, and are active at night.

Diurnal owls: Have yellow eyes, and are active during the day.

Crepuscular owls: Have orange eyes, and are active at dawn or dusk.

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27 Feb 2025 13:47

Bob Marley’s wife, Rita, was shot in the head during his attempted assassination. However, she had dreadlocks so thick, they saved her life.

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26 Feb 2025 21:21

Goliath Grouper fish was once called the “Jewfish” but had its name changed because it was thought to be too offensive.

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25 Feb 2025 17:49

Soviets created a poison called c-2 that physically shrunk human subjects and killed them within 15 minutes from administration.

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25 Feb 2025 08:42

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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08 Mar 2025 09:17

There is mental disorder called Maladaptive Daydreaming which causes people to excessively daydream to escape reality as a defense mechanism due to trauma usually from abuse.

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06 Mar 2025 10:27

Coffee grounds are environmentally friendly slug repellant.

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05 Mar 2025 17:10

The swastika was a symbol of Thor’s protection during the Germanic Viking Age.

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04 Mar 2025 19:10

Whenever a cat died in Ancient Egypt, their human family would go into a deep mourning and shave their eyebrows.

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04 Mar 2025 08:34

There are eight churches in Antarctica.

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03 Mar 2025 10:04

The Spartans used “cumbersome, impractical iron sticks as currency,” so as to discourage the pursuit of wealth and foster military strength and civic duty.

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02 Mar 2025 09:47

The strangers in our dreams are actually real people who have crossed our path at least once in our lifetime. Our brain simply stores their faces, and our subconscious may end up casting them in our dreams during REM sleep.

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01 Mar 2025 20:04

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01 Mar 2025 11:33

A behind the scenes footage of the James bond Crocodile scene 1973 by stuntman Ross Kananga.

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01 Mar 2025 05:48

Due to their similar protein composition, blood can be used as an egg substitute in baking and making ice cream.

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28 Feb 2025 09:15

Giraffes only need 5 to 30 minutes of sleep in a 24 hour period.

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27 Feb 2025 09:28

The name “zebra” comes from the Old Portuguese word Zevra which means “wild ass”

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26 Feb 2025 13:20

Julius Caesar’s body was the subject of the earliest known recorded autopsy. Of the 23 stab wounds recorded, only one was potentially fatal on its own. The physician ruled his death due “mostly to blood loss.”

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25 Feb 2025 13:42

Fennel tea and fennel seeds contain volatile oils that have antispasmodic properties and help prevent gastrointestinal problems like bloating, IBS and gas.

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24 Feb 2025 19:59

Bloodhounds get 10 times more neuronal information from their nose than humans get from their eyes.

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