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23 Jun 2023 13:20

Lobsters have clear blood. Most of us are well aware that lobster shells change color when exposed to heat, but the sea creatures' blood is also intriguing.

Lobster blood is initially clear and turns blue when it hits oxygen.

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22 Jun 2023 14:50

There’s a school in a remote village of Cambodia that’s entirely made of trash.

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19 Jun 2023 16:45

A Cyberchondriac is someone who scours the internet looking for details of their illnesses.

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18 Jun 2023 11:10

In 1996, a store manager in California robbed the store, reported the robbery, and then gave a detailed description of the ‘suspect’ to the sketch artist.

When the police pointed out to him that the ‘suspect’ looked exactly like him, the man confessed.

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16 Jun 2023 15:05

Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm.

Scientists say these model embryos, which resemble those in the earliest stages of human development, could provide a crucial window on the impact of genetic disorders and the biological causes of recurrent
miscarriage.

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14 Jun 2023 12:40

It might be hard to see with your naked eye, but everyone you pass by every day is literally glowing.

The human body emits a small quantity of visible light ("visible" in the technical sense—the illumination is about 1,000 times less intense than levels of light that we would actually be able to see).

Researchers in Japan used a special camera to track this glow and found that it fluctuates throughout the day, with the body emitting its lowest levels of light around 10 a.m. and highest at around 4 p.m., a rhythm the scientists attribute to the changes in one's metabolism.

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13 Jun 2023 11:45

Skipping breakfast causes brain degeneration, because low blood sugar levels leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain.

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09 Jun 2023 16:10

China buys bottled fresh air from Britain.

British entrepreneur Leo De Watts, 27, has made thousands of dollars selling bottles of British country air to Chinese buyers, but the price alone – £80 ($115) per bottle – could knock the wind out of many customers.

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07 Jun 2023 16:51

Straightening people’s teeth also improves their balance.

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05 Jun 2023 20:15

Meet the Jim twins. Identical twins, separated at birth and both adopted by different families.

Both married and divorced women named Linda and remarried women named Betty. Both had a dog called Toy. They both named their son James Alan. They reunited at age 39.

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02 Jun 2023 19:30

In 2013, a Milan court sentenced a homeless man to house arrest. Each night police went round to his bit of pavement to make sure he was in his sleeping bag.

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31 May 2023 16:15

Small changes make a big difference.

The Smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. START NOW!

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28 May 2023 12:10

​​The World’s most expensive building ever constructed is the Great Mosque of Mecca located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with a total construction cost of $100 billion.

It's one of the oldest mosques in the world and was built over the course of centuries, starting in the year 638.

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25 May 2023 20:31

BREAKING: China is dealing with new wave of XBB coronavirus variant that could cause up to 65 million cases weekly.

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22 May 2023 15:05

Hydra is the only living aquatic creature that never dies. It regenerates, replacing its cells with new ones.

Hydra are constantly regenerating their own bodies, replacing all of their cells every 20 days. They can do that because roughly half of the cells in their bodies are stem cells, which can develop into all the different types of specialized cells you need to build, or rebuild a body.

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22 Jun 2023 22:25

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20 Jun 2023 20:20

Smiling lessons are now available for people in Japan, following three years of government recommendations that people wear masks.

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18 Jun 2023 20:30

Coffee was originally discovered in Ethiopia in the 9th century, by a goat herder, who noticed that his goats became more energetic after eating berries from a certain tree.

He tried the berries himself and discovered their stimulating effects.

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17 Jun 2023 10:05

The World record for longest handshake is 43 hours and 35 minutes.

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15 Jun 2023 10:05

It is impossible to catch a cold at the North and South Poles.

And you can't get the flu. The reason is obvious: it is so cold at the poles that ordinary viruses simply do not survive there.

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13 Jun 2023 21:05

There was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch, imprisoned at Auschwitz.

He was forced to fight fellow prisoners. The losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot.

He survived more than 3 years and 200 fights, eventually being released when the camp was liberated. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film 'Triumph of the spirit'.

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12 Jun 2023 19:05

Dogs line up with earth's magnetic field when they poop. They usually prefer a north-south axis.

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08 Jun 2023 13:16

Your taste buds have an average lifespan of 10 days.

Adult taste buds, in general, turn over within eight to 12 days. Taste buds are clusters of polarized sensory cells embedded in the tongue, and the ones that are closer to the surface have a shorter lifespan. That's why, when you burn your tongue, it doesn't take too long until you're able to taste again.

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06 Jun 2023 21:02

There are more than 24 time zones around the world.

If the Earth's time zones were each one hour apart, then we would have 24 times zones, which sounds pretty straightforward. However, the situation is a little more complicated than that. Since many time zones only differ by 30 or 45 minutes, they don't fit into a neat and tidy 24-hour span, which means that there are more than 24, though it's hard to say exactly how many.

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03 Jun 2023 21:05

Last year in Ireland, a woman was hospitalised with "extreme stomach pain" caused by years of holding in farts around her boyfriend.

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01 Jun 2023 19:31

Unripe papaya may be used as a home remedy for teeth whitening. Raw papaya might be a good bleaching agent because it contains papain and chymopapain enzymes.

These enzymes are found in unripe papaya more than in ripe papaya. Papain enzyme may be able to remove the superficial stains of the teeth and reduce the plaque development in the teeth.

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29 May 2023 20:05

In 1906, a man named Joe Munch was sentenced to one minute in jail.

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26 May 2023 17:15

Tarrare was an 18th-century French
showman who could eat enough food to feed 15 people and swallow cats whole, but his stomach was never satisfied.

He was an insatiable glutton who ate everything from human flesh to live eels.

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25 May 2023 14:15

Nigerian man arrested for impregnating Wife, Wife's mother, and Wife's sister in UK.

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21 May 2023 11:05

In New Zealand, this man was allowed to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver's licence photo after insisting he wore it for religious purposes.

He claimed he was a "pastafarian".

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