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25 Mar 2025 13:52

There’s a religion in Nigeria called Chrislam.

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24 Mar 2025 09:25

In 1977, Argentina flew a pregnant woman to their military base in Antarctica so she could have the first baby to ever be born on the continent. In doing so, the Argentine government believed this would give them an undisputable claim on the land, but the claim is not recognized internationally.

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23 Mar 2025 09:41

Wedding cakes were originally white to symbolize purity and virginity. Since pure sugar was expensive, a whiter cake indicated your higher wealth and class

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21 Mar 2025 20:08

There is a knife (the WASP knife) that once inside the victim, forces over 800 psi of CO2 inside the victim, creating a basketball sized air pocket and freezing the surrounding internal organs.

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21 Mar 2025 03:17

A comet’s tail doesn’t follow the comet, instead, it points away from the sun.

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20 Mar 2025 07:44

“Gotham”, as a nickname for New York City, was coined by Washington Irving in 1807 and it literally means “Goat’s Town.”

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18 Mar 2025 05:11

There is a mysterious expanding black goo called La Mancha Negra (the black stain) that covers parts of roads in Caracas, Venezuela. Millions of dollars have been spent researching it, yet the cause is still unknown. 1,800 people have died in auto accidents due to the goo.

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17 Mar 2025 13:41

There is a mineral called “Cummingtonite” named after its place of discovery: Cummington, Massachusetts

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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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24 Mar 2025 12:41

Acronyms are said like words, while initialisms are individual letters. For example, NATO is an acronym and FBI is an initialism.

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23 Mar 2025 11:02

The word “strike” as in a labor stoppage borrows from the practice of 18th Century British sailors who would strike or lower their ship’s sails and not raise them again until they’d been paid.

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22 Mar 2025 11:32

The word ‘Jebus’ as used in the Simpsons is in fact an old name for Jerusalem, named after the tribe who had built it.

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21 Mar 2025 15:47

In Boba tea, “boba” means large breasts, a slang for the chewy tapioca balls (or pearls) added to the drink.

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20 Mar 2025 10:48

At over 8 megapascals (1160 psi), it has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear could crush a bowling ball.

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19 Mar 2025 08:06

IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of “actresses with beautiful eyes.

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18 Mar 2025 03:55

In 2009, Rapper Coolio attempted to stage dive. Nobody in the crowd caught him and he was beaten up while also having his shoes stolen.

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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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