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17 Oct 2024 08:05

Staying awake for 17 hours has the same effect on your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.

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15 Oct 2024 08:05

In 1871, lawyer Clement Vallandigham was defending a client accused of murder.

In demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself, he accidentally shot himself.

He died. His client was acquitted.

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13 Oct 2024 09:05

Kenya is the only country in the world where people can watch Netflix for free.

Netflix has a free mobile plan in the country.

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12 Oct 2024 14:14

In Southern Ethiopia there's a tribe known as Surma where women’s beauty is determined by how large their lip plate is.

The lip plates are usually made of clay or wood and range between 4 and 25 centimeters. To be placed on the lip, two or four teeth are removed before the lower lip is cut to fit the lip plate. This lip plate process is usually done by their mother when they attain puberty.

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10 Oct 2024 09:05

In 2004, Swedish authorities deployed emergency services to provide a "condom ambulance".

If you needed a condom urgently, you could call them for an emergency condom delivery.

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09 Oct 2024 19:42

It's possible for a woman to menstruate through their bellybutton (umbilical endometriosis).

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08 Oct 2024 21:05

The earwax of Europeans and Africans is light to dark brown, sticky and moist. The earwax of Asians is colourless or grey, brittle and dry.

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07 Oct 2024 18:05

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2M) away from a toilet, to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

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06 Oct 2024 18:05

Ancient Greek athletes had their spleens removed to help them run faster.

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05 Oct 2024 08:10

China has just one timezone (Beijing time) that covers the whole country.

In the westernmost provinces, the sun may not rise until 10am or set until midnight. The border with Afghanistan is the greatest border time change in the world.

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04 Oct 2024 10:07

In 2001, Saddam Hussein offered $94 million in humanitarian aid to Americans living in poverty.

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03 Oct 2024 17:05

Nauru, a country in oceania, has the most overweight population in the world with over 95% of its population overweight.

Incidentally, it doesn’t have McDonald’s…

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02 Oct 2024 19:34

People kiss at weddings because, kisses were used in ancient times to seal contracts.

In ancient Rome, the wedding kiss was more of a legal formality. Back then, marriage was considered a contract and the kiss was the “signature” that rendered the contract binding.

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01 Oct 2024 09:17

There’s a disease called Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis, which makes people allergic to exercise.

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17 Oct 2024 16:05

The Most expensive coffee in the world 'kopi luwak', comes from cat poop.

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16 Oct 2024 10:04

At least seven taxi drivers in northeast Japan have reported picking up the ghost of a person who died in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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14 Oct 2024 10:40

The distance of a mile was defined by ancient Roman armies marching one thousand paces (mille passus). The nautical mile is based on the size of the earth.

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12 Oct 2024 21:53

One-third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.

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11 Oct 2024 09:51

In 1993, a man named James Scott purposely damaged a levee and caused a massive flood of the Mississippi River only to stall his wife from coming home so that he could party.

His actions flooded 14,000 acres of farmland, destroyed buildings, and closed a bridge. He was convicted of "intentionally causing a catastrophe" and is still in prison serving a life sentence.

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09 Oct 2024 22:31

India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.

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09 Oct 2024 09:05

The Nazis made butter from coal.

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08 Oct 2024 10:15

An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.

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07 Oct 2024 09:22

Sexsomnia, also called sleep sex, is a disorder in which sleeping people engage in sexual behaviors such as masturbation or initiating sex with another person.

Even if their eyes open and they make sexual noises, they are truly asleep and unaware of their behavior once they are awake.

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06 Oct 2024 09:46

In November 2021, a student was reportedly sentenced to death in North Korea for smuggling copies of Netflix's “Squid Game” into the country. Six others who watched the show were sentenced to five years of hard labor.

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04 Oct 2024 17:05

Japan is the only country in the world with more pets than children.

The country has just 17 million children under the age of 16, but almost 20 million cats and dogs.

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03 Oct 2024 22:05

A Man once landed in the Hospital after sniffing his own dirty socks.

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03 Oct 2024 09:05

There's a garden in the UK dedicated to 100 plants that can kill you.

Its only available to visit by booking a guided tour, and people have fainted walking around due to the fumes that some plants give off. Its classed as the most dangerous garden in the world.

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02 Oct 2024 12:14

Until the early 19th century, it was completely common for doctors to place their ear directly on a patient's exposed breast, in order to listen to the heartbeat.

The stethoscope had not been invented yet.

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30 Sep 2024 21:08

Men who can perform at least 40 push-ups in one attempt, are much less likely to suffer from heart disease within the next ten years, according to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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