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16 Mar 2025 21:31

Noise pollution is deadly to whales: sonar can directly inflict fatal physical trauma and decompression sickness (akin to “the bends”). Individuals, sometimes entire pods will beach themselves to escape, whereupon they will choke to death under their own weight or drown at high tide.

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15 Mar 2025 09:59

At the time of death in 1877, Cornelius Vanderbilt was the world richest man and left an estate larger than the US treasury. When 120 of his descendants gathered in 1973, there was not a millionaire among them.

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13 Mar 2025 20:33

The Cathars was a medieval Christian sect that condemned war and capital punishment; believed in reincarnation, two gods of good and evil and largely endorsed gender equality. They were annihilated by the Catholic Church

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12 Mar 2025 23:35

Throwing a live goat off the top of a church was a tradition in Spain until it was banned in 2002.

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11 Mar 2025 10:04

Usury, the practice of giving loans that unfairly enrich the lender (e.g., interest), is condemned in most religious texts, including those of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and others.

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10 Mar 2025 11:00

“The first animal to evolve vision was the trilobite, a distant extinct relative of spiders and shrimps.”

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09 Mar 2025 20:54

In the Victorian era, it was a thing to send “Vinegar” or Hate valentines anonymously to people you disliked. They were often incredibly harsh, and some even suggested the recipient go kill themselves.

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08 Mar 2025 20:28

The closest relatives of hippopotamuses are whales.

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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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16 Mar 2025 12:41

There are no mosquitos in Iceland.

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14 Mar 2025 14:39

After a large meal, a male lion can sleep for up to 24 hours.

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13 Mar 2025 11:36

The diet of the bearded vulture is ~90% bones, allowing it to return to a carcass long after other scavengers have removed any soft tissues. Bones too large to swallow are dropped from great height to crack them into smaller pieces.

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12 Mar 2025 19:51

There is something called sleep debt and if you do not reduce the debt you can experience worsened vision, impaired driving, and trouble remembering. Long-term effects include obesity, insulin resistance, and heart disease.

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10 Mar 2025 20:02

The oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.

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09 Mar 2025 22:36

There's a town in western Austria that was known as "F*cking" up until 2021 when they changed their name to Fugging.

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09 Mar 2025 17:34

The average volume of menstrual fluid produced during human menstruation is about 2.4 tablespoons.

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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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