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24 Apr 2023 17:05

Picasso burned most of his early work to keep his apartment warm because he was poor.

Even though Picasso arrived in Paris at the time of the Belle Epoque, a period of great economic prosperity and cultural advancement, he experienced severe poverty, cold, and desperation. To keep the apartment warm, Picasso was forced to do the unthinkable and burn a huge amount of his artwork.

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23 Apr 2023 10:05

An amateur scientist named Tim Friede is immune to snake venom that would otherwise kill a person.

In the last two decades, he has received over 200 bites from various deadly snakes, causing him to develop a natural immune response to the venom. He has even survived the bite of a sub-Saharan Black Mamba, which is considered to be one of the most venomous snakes on the planet.

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21 Apr 2023 10:05

Wishing a joyous Eid Al-Fitr to all the Muslims celebrating around the world!

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18 Apr 2023 13:20

In 2009, a Russian man attempted to rob a hair salon.

However, the plot took an unexpected turn when Olga Zajac, the owner of the salon, overpowered him and tied him up.

She then force-fed him Viagra and used him as a sex slave for 3 days.

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16 Apr 2023 13:05

Holding grudges can make you physically sick and even shorten your lifespan.

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15 Apr 2023 10:46

Scientists are able to create brain cells out of pee.

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13 Apr 2023 13:10

While rare, laughter has actually been the cause of multiple deaths.

The last notable case was a man who was in good health but laughed so hard while watching a 1988 comedy, his heart rate rose to an estimated 250-500 beats per minute, leading to a fatal heart attack.

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11 Apr 2023 22:05

The Ethiopian bible is the oldest, most complete and original bible on earth.

Written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. It is also World’s first illustrated Christian Bible.

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09 Apr 2023 15:05

Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protects against tooth decay.

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08 Apr 2023 11:30

Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, called it "Artist's shit" and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin.

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05 Apr 2023 12:40

In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two countries, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

It was the only (mostly) non-violent split of an ex-Eastern Bloc nation, so peaceful it was called the "Velvet Divorce".

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03 Apr 2023 13:30

Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy. Even though most Chinese people don't eat cats or dogs, as many as four million cats a year are estimated to be killed for the meat trade.

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01 Apr 2023 09:05

Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.

Earrings may have given pirates a bit of fashionable flair, but the accessories weren't worn simply for stylish reasons. Some pirates thought earrings could improve eyesight and ward off seasickness.

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21 Mar 2023 20:10

OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but its first known use was in 1917.

OMG is an abbreviation that many of us started using when texts, tweets, and other short messages became the norm, but it turns out it was first used in 1917 in a letter from a British admiral to Winston Churchill, according to Wall Street Journal. It was only added to modern dictionaries in recent years. (Snapple's fact says 2011, however, Merriam-Webster entered it into its online dictionary two years earlier, in 2009.)

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20 Mar 2023 21:10

Beer is roughly 90-95% water.

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23 Apr 2023 21:05

In 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot dead a teacher, 16 pupils, and injured 15 others before killing himself.

The British were so upset that gun laws were changed making gun ownership extremely difficult. 27 years on, there hasn't been a school shooting since in the UK.

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22 Apr 2023 20:05

India has become the most populated country in the world!

India 🇮🇳 1,426,085,226
China 🇨🇳 1,425,740,250
USA 🇺🇸 339,643,012
Indonesia 🇮🇩 277,092,730
Pakistan 🇵🇰 239,577,560
Nigeria 🇳🇬 222,783,375
Brazil 🇧🇷 216,183,823
Bangladesh 🇧🇩 172,615,149
Russia 🇷🇺 144,540,197
Mexico 🇲🇽 128,273,116

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19 Apr 2023 14:10

Newborn babies can only see in black and white for a few months.

Just after birth, a baby sees only in black and white, with shades of gray. As the months go by, they will slowly start to develop their color vision at around 4 months.

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17 Apr 2023 15:45

When your eyes move, your brain purposely blocks your vision, which is why you can't see the motion of your own eyes in a mirror.

This is called ‘saccadic masking’ and without it, your life would be like watching a constant movie that's filled with a shaky hand-held camera.

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16 Apr 2023 08:35

We would like to wish a Happy Easter to all Christians celebrating around the World today!

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14 Apr 2023 10:20

In colonial India, the British government tried to control the cobra population by offering a bounty for dead cobras.

Indians realized they could breed cobras, kill them, and collect the reward.

When the government discovered the plan, it stopped offering the bounty, leading breeders to release all their cobras into the wild. As a result, the cobra population grew even higher than before This phenomenon is now known as the "Cobra Effect," where actions intended to solve a problem end up making it worse.

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12 Apr 2023 12:45

"Fart Battles" were popular art scrolls created in Japan during the Edo period.

Not only was flatulence rewarded, it became the basis for competitive play in battles known as He-gassen.

He-gassen is also the name of a Japanese scroll that was made nearly a hundred and seventy years ago. According to research, it would have been created during the mid-1800s in the Edo period of Japan.

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11 Apr 2023 12:42

Samosas are banned in Somalia. Prepared from refined flour and a filling of meat or vegetables, the snack has a triangular shape which seemed to be a symbol of Christianity to 'Al-Shabaab group'.

The shape didn't go well with the group, as they thought it resembles the Christian Holy Trinity and so they banned Samosa in Somalia in the year 2011.

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09 Apr 2023 11:30

Wishing a Happy Easter to all those celebrating!

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06 Apr 2023 13:30

Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf.

Everything about life is slow for these sleepy mammals. Most sloths will only have a bowel movement once a week, and it can take them up to 30 days to completely digest a single leaf.

For comparison, it takes the average human 12 to 48 hours to ingest, digest, and eliminate waste from food.

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04 Apr 2023 13:15

Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years.

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02 Apr 2023 11:05

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

Oysters are a protandric species, which means that they don't remain male or female over the course of their lifetime. Instead, they change genders. With reproductive organs that contain both eggs and sperm, oysters first release sperm when they mature before switching over to eggs once they get a little older.

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22 Mar 2023 11:40

A Burkini is a type of swimsuit for Muslim women, which covers the whole body except the face, the hands and the feet.

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21 Mar 2023 16:05

In China, there is an "Elderly Rights" law which makes it illegal for anyone who has parents over 60 not to visit them regularly.

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20 Mar 2023 10:05

Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate birthdays because the only two accounts of birthday parties in the Bible ended in murder (the hanging of the Pharaoh's baker during the Pharaohs birthday, and the beheading of John the Baptist at King Herod Antipas' birthday).

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