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Gorillas can purr, just as cats do.
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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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People with anxiety perceive the world differently-their brain lumps both safe and unsafe things together and labels them all unsafe.
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In athletics, if you move as the gun sounds, you are considered to have false started, as the human brain cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds.
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In Ancient Rome, a gladiator was only someone who fought against other men. If you were in the arena facing wild beasts, you were called a bestiarii. There were two types of bestiarii: those condemned to die in such a manner, and those doing it voluntarily, for pay or for glory.
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There is a commercial advertising technique called “Two cunts in a Kitchen”, typically used in ads targeting women for things like feminine hygiene products
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There is a disorder called Body Integrity Identity Disorder where sufferers are at war with their bodies and they seek to sever limbs. Sometimes it has led people to injure themselves with guns or chain saws in desperate efforts to force surgical amputations.
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A shortfin mako shark, the world’s fastest shark, can leap approximately 30 feet high in the air.
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In the Victorian Era, beards were prescribed by doctors to help keep men healthy.
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The first actual computer “bug” was a dead moth which was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
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Meditation reduces the need for sleep, in terms of maintaining alertness and reaction times.
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In Spain, it is a tradition for hunters to kill their Spanish Greyhound hunting dogs at the end of the hunting season. Young healthy dogs are hung, shot, maimed and/or strangled and left to die.
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“Mummy Brown” was a once-popular paint pigment made from ground-up Egyptian mummies. It was produced well into the 20th century and only disappeared when the manufacturers ran out of mummies.
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The first living creatures to go into orbit and return safely were 40 mice, two rats, a rabbit, some fruit flies, plants, and 2 dogs.
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A lower IQ as a child correlates to higher chances of obesity as an adult.
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The cholesterol you eat has very little impact on how much cholesterol is in your blood.
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Prior to Westerners coming to Japan, there had been a ban on red meat. The Emperor repealed the ban because he believed it was responsible for the Westerners’ greater size.
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The “AR” in AR-15 is a brand name and stands for “ArmaLite Rifle” not “assault rifle.
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Unfertilized bumblebee eggs become males, and only fertilized eggs grow into females and queens.
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A form of autoimmune encephalitis mimics the symptoms of demonic possession, and it has only been identified in the last 10 years. It affects mostly young women and can come on with no pre warnings whatsoever.
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Pinworms are parasitic worms which make your ass itch at night when they come crawling out of your anus to lay their eggs. This makes you scratch your ass and helps these sticky eggs spread, often to your own breakfast, thereby repeating the cycle.
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A star discovered 75 light-years away, the brown dwarf star CFBDSIR 1458+10B is no warmer than a freshly brewed cup of coffee.
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Goats are one of the reasons behind the desertification of the middle east.
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The Stoned Ape Theory, which is a controversial theory from Terence McKenna which states that a lot of our advanced human evolution came as a result of the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms by our primate ancestors.
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The human brain tends to prefer lazy thinking and will opt for habitual responses over active thinking @googlefactss #psychology
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The farther back you sit on an airplane, the better are your odds of survival in the event of a crash. Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.
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The light bulb is the universal symbol for a new idea because of Felix the Cat cartoons.
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In order to be officially considered a new element, an isotope must have a lifetime of at least 10^-14 seconds, as this is approximately how long it takes for a nucleus to grab hold of its electrons and become chemically stable.
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Synsepalum dulcificum, also known as “Miracle Fruit” if consumed makes sour foods taste sweet. In the 1970’s, an attempt was made to commercialize this fruit for this very purpose, but failed. There are accusations that the sugar industry sabotaged their research to prevent loss of business.
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