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19 Mar 2023 13:05

China banned Winnie the Pooh after comparisons between the cartoon bear and President Xi Jinping.

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16 Mar 2023 09:05

In Morocco in 1955, a pregnant woman was scheduled for a c-section but fled the hospital after watching another woman die during the procedure. She was in pain for a few days after, but then the pain suddenly disappeared, so she went on with her life.

Forty-six years later, she was diagnosed with a tumor. It turned out to be the calcified baby still inside her.

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13 Mar 2023 09:05

Marijuana is illegal in 48 states, and having sex with a horse is illegal in only 27 states.

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12 Mar 2023 09:10

The life span of a taste bud is about 10 days.

Your taste isn't the only thing that evolves as you get older—your literal taste buds are changing all the time.

In fact, "taste bud cells undergo continual turnover even in adulthood, and their average lifespan has been estimated as approximately 10 days," according to findings published in the journal Neuroscience.

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10 Mar 2023 17:40

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What is the code?

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09 Mar 2023 13:30

Loneliness and social isolation can be as damaging to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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07 Mar 2023 17:20

Hundreds of people belonging to a religious sect in eastern Uganda have fled from their villages to Ethiopia, fearing Doomsday.

Police said that according to their investigations, the sect members fled to escape the end of the world, which they believe will start from their area.

The members of the sect were told by its leaders that their area would soon be hit with death and all the people there would die. They reportedly sold off their property and fled to Ethiopia.

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06 Mar 2023 16:05

What is a shape with 999 sides called?

An enneahectaenneacontakaienneagon
According to Kutztown University, a 999-sided polygon or enneahectaenneacontakaienneagon can be broken down into the Greek names for the numbers ennea (9), hecta (100), enneaconta (90), kai (and) ennea (9), with gon (side) on the end.

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04 Mar 2023 09:05

The World's Most (And Least) Powerful Passports.

No. of countries passport holders can visit visa-free:
Japan - 193
Singapore - 192
South Korea - 192
Spain - 190
Germany - 190
Finland - 189
Italy - 189
Luxembourg - 189

Least Powerful Passports:
Pakistan - 32
Syria - 30
Iraq - 30
Afghanistan - 27

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02 Mar 2023 08:05

A Colombian woman once found a potato growing in her vagina

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28 Feb 2023 14:05

Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark

However, the light is too weak for human eyes to see

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25 Feb 2023 09:05

Gold is extremely difficult to destroy.

The reason why gold is so widely used in the jewellery, electronic and medical industries lies in the properties of this precious metal: it is virtually indestructible.

Gold has a melting point of 1064.18°C, it does not oxidise, does not grow mouldy, does not rust and can be recycled an infinite number of times. This means that the gold ring you wear every day may once have been the jewellery of someone who lived in a completely different century.

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23 Feb 2023 17:05

A zoo where visitors are caged.

Would you try this?

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22 Feb 2023 13:30

Life expectancy and height are inversely correlated

Studies suggest that men under 5'9" live on average 4.95 years longer than men over 5'9"

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18 Feb 2023 09:06

There is a museum of bad art.

Located in Somerville, Massachusetts, the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) houses a permanent collection of more than 700 pieces that its website says "range from the work of talented artists that have gone awry to works of exuberant, although crude, execution by artists barely in control of the brush. What they all have in common is a special quality that sets them apart in one way or another from the merely incompetent."

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17 Mar 2023 11:05

Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of having an empty glass when drinking.

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15 Mar 2023 10:30

Andrés Escobar was a Colombian football player who scored an own goal that eliminated his team from the 1994 World Cup and was murdered in retaliation to the mistake. His murder further tarnished the image of the country internationally. Ironically, Escobar himself had worked to promote a more positive image of Colombia.

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12 Mar 2023 21:32

The term "soccer" was created in Britain. It was used until the late 20th century when British fans noticed it was becoming too Americanized and decided to abandon it.

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11 Mar 2023 09:05

The largest landowner in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

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10 Mar 2023 09:05

Humans nearly went extinct about 70,000 years ago when the total population dropped down to only a few thousand people.

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08 Mar 2023 16:05

The Average number of sexual partners men have globally:

Turkey - 14.5
Australia - 13.3
New Zealand - 13.2
Iceland - 13.0
South Africa - 12.5
Finland - 12.4
Norway - 12.1
Sweden - 11.8
Italy - 11.8
Switzerland - 11.1
Ireland - 11.1
Canada - 10.7
United States - 10.7
Greece - 10.6
Japan - 10.2
United Kingdom - 9.8
Denmark - 9.3
Russia - 9.0
Czech Republic - 9.0
Brazil - 9.0
Mexico - 9.0
France - 8.1
Croatia - 7.5
Netherlands - 7.0
Portugal - 7.0
Hungary - 6.6
Spain - 6.1
Poland - 6.0
Germany - 5.8
China - 3.1
India - 3.0

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07 Mar 2023 13:05

The Country of Denmark has been using the same flag design since 1625, and holds the record for the oldest continuously used national flag in the world.

A White Scandinavian cross on a bright red background, the bold and instantly recognizable flag is known as the "Dannebrog" or "Danish cloth."

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05 Mar 2023 09:05

Cannabinoids (the active ingredients in cannabis) are naturally present in human breast milk.

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03 Mar 2023 11:05

'Chess boxing' is a sport in which players alternate between rounds of chess and boxing until a winner is declared by checkmate, knockout, or technical stop.

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01 Mar 2023 14:20

World University Rankings 2023:

1. 🇬🇧 University of Oxford
2. 🇺🇸 Harvard University
3. 🇬🇧 University of Cambridge
4. 🇺🇸 Stanford University
5. 🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. 🇺🇸 California Institute of Technology
7. 🇺🇸 Princeton University

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26 Feb 2023 09:30

In Dubai, artificial rain is regularly created through cloud seeding, as natural rainfall is rare

Rains are announced a day in advance

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24 Feb 2023 11:10

In 17th century, Hawaiian Queen, Keopuolani, was considered so sacred that even touching her shadow was punishable by death.

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23 Feb 2023 12:05

In 2012, there was a “Hug Me” Coca-Cola machine in Singapore, which gave you a can of coke each time you hug it.

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21 Feb 2023 09:05

What is the most expensive painting to be sold at auction?

Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450.3 million.

Leonardo da Vinci's finished work is quite rare, so when his portrait of Jesus Christ, Salvator Mundi, went to auction in 2017 at Christie's in New York, it sold for a staggering $450.3 million.

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16 Feb 2023 17:05

It's not a photoshop, it's an Eudin ear. An edible mushroom popular in Chinese cooking

Would you try it?

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