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28 May 2024 16:05

Your marriage is 3 times as likely to end in divorce, if you and your spouse both have divorced parents.

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27 May 2024 21:05

Technically, you're never really 'touching' anything because atoms repel each other

When you're sitting in a chair, you're actually hovering above it at an unbelievably small distance.

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26 May 2024 19:05

If you're shot by a sniper, you'll be dead before you hear the sound of the gun, because sniper bullet travels faster than the speed of sound.

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23 May 2024 22:40

Soundgasm/Audiogasm

When a particular sound or piece of music appeals to the listeners ear so much, that the listener experiences a state of euphoria usually with tingles down the spine towards the knees.

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22 May 2024 09:05

A Dutch artist created a cloud in the middle of a room by balancing tempreature, humidity and lightning.

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21 May 2024 08:05

The Glass of a beer bottle is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially UV.

To prevent the process of skunking from occurring, beer brewers have opted for darkly tinted glass. It's why you see so many beers in brown glass bottles today.

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20 May 2024 08:30

A Man who refuses to identify himself has been imprisoned in Canada, since 2013.

He is called the "Unknown Person", and his fingerprints have matched four separate identities, two of whom are from two different countries and one of unknown citizenship.

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19 May 2024 08:32

Professional Booty Slapping Sport

There is a new sport in Romania & Russia, in which female fitness enthusiasts take turns slapping each other’s butts.

This booty-smacking match is officially titled the “Russian Female Slap Contest” or Romania version "RFX" During the booty-slapping competition, the women aim to knock their opponents off balance.

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18 May 2024 08:05

A Hungarian psychologist named Laszlo Polgar theorized that anyone could become a genius because geniuses were made and not born.

To prove this, he used his own daughters as experiments and trained them to become great at chess. The three Polgar sisters then became chess prodigies, and the youngest, Judit Polgar, become a grandmaster at just age 15.

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17 May 2024 16:05

A West Virginia prison inmate in 1994 braided a dental floss into a rope to climb up a wall, and successfully escape.

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16 May 2024 16:05

The longest recorded fart was achieved by a man named Bernard Clemmens from London and he achieved a whopping 2 minute and 48 second continuous fart.

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15 May 2024 17:05

Many universities offer diploma courses in 'Selfie'. The Course duration is from 30 to 90 days.

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14 May 2024 11:25

The bridge to nowhere.

In 1998, a bridge was built over the Choluteca river in Honduras, but Hurricane Mitch rerouted the river and destroyed the roads on both ends of the bridge.

The bridge quickly became known as "The Bridge to nowhere."

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13 May 2024 08:05

A seven year old Indian boy complaining of jaw pain was treated in a local hospital and found to have 526 teeth inside his mouth.

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12 May 2024 16:05

In 2013, a woman claimed she got pregnant by eating a McDonalds.

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28 May 2024 08:05

This is the Country of Sealand. It has its own government stamps, passport and even a soccer team. There are 22 official residents.

Principality of Sealand is a micronation that claims to be the world's smallest country.

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27 May 2024 08:05

In November 2022, Hundreds of sheep were once seen walking in a circle for 12 days straight in China.

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24 May 2024 08:30

There are reindeer with glowing antlers in Finland.

To prevent reindeer from being hit by cars, their antlers are painted with a special spray of reflective paint.

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23 May 2024 12:05

In 2008, Finnish police found a dead mosquito while searching the inside of a stolen car

They tested the blood from the mosquito's last meal and successfully used it to identify the thief.

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21 May 2024 18:30

Joan Ginther a woman with a PhD in maths won the scratch lottery 4 times, totally winning $20 million by figuring out the algorithm of the ticket production.

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20 May 2024 16:05

Men shouldn't look at their phone at night. Greater exposure to light-emitting devices after bedtime is linked with poor sperm quality.

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19 May 2024 16:05

A Man in Florida used a cell phone jammer on his way to work every day because he didn't want drivers around him to be distracted by their phones

He was fined $48,000 by the FCC when he was caught.

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18 May 2024 22:47

The bellybutton is so dirty, scientists are finding new unknown bacteria.

One person had bacterium previously found only on Japanese soil, where he had never been.

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17 May 2024 21:05

A Man in Belgium was once arrested after getting the coronavirus vaccine eight times, in order to get vaccine certification on behalf of other people.

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16 May 2024 21:05

A Human life is generally valued by government agencies at about US$10 million.

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15 May 2024 22:05

A Village in Turkey named 'Kuskoy', communicates in Whistles. A whole language was developed through whistling.

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14 May 2024 18:35

The 2016 psychological horror film “Split” is loosely based on real life of  Billy Milligan's 24 personality.

Split (the movie) is actually based on a real life character of a man named Billy Milligan, who like the movie kidnapped 3 girls and approched them with different personalities.

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13 May 2024 16:05

In 2013, a homeless man named Billy Ray Harris found a $4,000 engagement ring in his beggar's cup.

A woman had accidentally dropped it while giving him some change. She returned two days later, and he gave the ring back.

In thanks, she set up a fund with the goal of raising $4,000 for him. It ended up making over $185,000.

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12 May 2024 21:05

In Japan, you can buy octopus-flavoured ice cream.

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12 May 2024 08:15

Twinstrangers.com is a website where you can register to find your lookalike from anywhere in the world by uploading photos, selecting your facial features, and looking through matches.

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