After the First World War, money in Germany depreciated so much that it was cheaper to heat a stove with it than to buy firewood.
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Female dragonflies pretend to be dead to avoid unwanted mating with males.
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Sodalite is a type of rock that reacts with UV light. When exposed to it, the rock turns to a golden, lava-like color.
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The mosquito is the deadliest insect
More than 1 million people die each year due to mosquito bites.
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Movie trailers originally played after the movie.
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Pigeons nod their heads while walking to stabilize the image.
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You are looking at the first man-made biological leaf. It can absorb water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant.
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Women who rarely have sex are more likely to grow mustaches.
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The President of Brazil signed the law on the protection of animals with his dog.
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In the event of a nuclear war, the Swiss have a bunker in which there will be a place for the entire population.
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🎢 In a paper published in 2016 in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, researchers showed that riding the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World's Magic Kingdom helped kidney stones dislodge.
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Goldfish can't close their eyes
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The World Population 🌍 has reached 8 billion today on November 15, 2022
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Cats do not have receptors that recognize sweet and salty tastes.
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In Italy, the birth rate has fallen to a minimum
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Ancient Egyptians used dead mice to ease toothaches
In Ancient Egypt, people put a dead mouse in their mouth if they had a toothache, according to Nathan Belofsky’s book Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Age. Mice were also used as a warts remedy during Elizabethan England.
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In WWII Germany built a massive Railway Gun called the "Gustav", firing 7 ton shells across 47 km.
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Scientists from the U.S. reconstructed the faces of three Egyptian mummies with DNA!
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The only asteroid with rings
Chariklo is more than just an asteroid with rings. It is the largest of the Centaur Family asteroids, consisting of small bodies whose orbits lie outside of Jupiter.
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Skeleton of the now extinct, Archelon Ischyros, the largest sea turtle to have ever existed. Photo from 1902
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