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05 Apr 2025 09:26

Pigeons are one of the most intelligent birds on the planet. Pigeons can recognize all 26 letters of the English language and are also capable of conceptualizing. Pigeons can differentiate between photographs and even differentiate between two different human beings in a photograph.

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04 Apr 2025 17:02

Cannonball jellyfish shoot sperm out of their mouths and onto the mouths of other jellyfish

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03 Apr 2025 03:29

In most cases, it’s safe to sleep after getting a concussion.

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01 Apr 2025 14:00

A leopon is a hybrid resulting from the crossing of a male leopard with a lioness. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the body carries similarities to leopards.

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31 Mar 2025 07:21

The saying “He can run but he can’t hide” comes from the great boxing champion Joe Louis who once said it when speaking about one of his opponents, who was known for his speed.

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29 Mar 2025 16:21

There is an Octopus species (Graneledone boreopacifica) that cares for her eggs for 53 months, apparently not eating during this time and then dies. This brooding period is the longest known for any animal.

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29 Mar 2025 01:40

By the age of 3, a baby will begin to develop an awareness of being either male or female and begin to act accordingly.

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27 Mar 2025 07:08

The potato was first domesticated in the region of north-western Bolivia and southern Peru between 8000 and 5000 BC. According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900.

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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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04 Apr 2025 21:46

An attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the world’s most expensive cocktail was thwarted when a customer dropped and broke the bottle of Cognac that was worth $77,000.

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03 Apr 2025 14:05

Pandas are biologically carnivorous and derive little energy from bamboo, they eat between 20 and 30 pounds of bamboo a day. Consequently, they also defecate up to 40 times a day.

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02 Apr 2025 10:09

If milk is added to coffee, the fat content of the milk causes human body to absorb caffeine at a slower rate, thus weakening its effect.

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31 Mar 2025 16:23

The concept of using a card for purchases was described in 1887 by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy used the term credit card eleven times in this novel, although this referred to a card for spending a citizen’s dividend from the government, rather than borrowing.

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30 Mar 2025 14:02

You can tell if a baby is self-aware by drawing a red dot on his/her forehead in front of a mirror. If the baby touches its reflection, he/she is not aware. If it rubs its own forehead to try to remove the mark, it is.

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29 Mar 2025 11:12

Helicopters won’t just drop like a rock if the engine dies. They are actually designed to be able to land safely in such cases using a maneuver called autorotation, which allows them to descend and land using the rotor blades and air resistance.

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27 Mar 2025 19:52

Tea drinking accounts for a high proportion of aluminum in the human diet.

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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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