100 totally useless facts too entertaining for words

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There areAnimal facts, There arehistorical events, There arestate facts, There areDISNEY FACTS, and then, there are unnecessary facts - thekind of trivia You will never be,already must know. But hey, it's part of pleasure, right? Of the type of music that can eliminate mosquitoes with shocking food that you can turn into diamonds, you will love learning theseunnecessary facts. Now we dare you try to find a reason to use them!

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No number from 1 to 999 includes the letter "A" in its word form.

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Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it is appropriate to write 101 as "hundred and one", there is no number of 1 to 999 which includes the letter "A" in its word form, according to the longtime mathematics teacherJonathan Garnett-Smith. One, two, three, four, five, six ... twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty ... you can continue, but you will not find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit "thousand".

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Many oranges are actually green.

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As we assume that all oranges are orange because of their name, the fruit is often green when ripe, thanks to a lot of chlorophyll. In South America and other tropical premises, oranges are green all year round. But at the US, where it is colder, the oranges lose their chlorophyll and take the color that corresponds to their name. And because North American buyers areUsed for oranges Which are actually orange, imported fruits are either exposed to ethylene gases or shocked with cold water to remove chlorophyll.

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The opposite sides of a matrix are always added up to seven years.

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If you take a look, you will see that and six are on the opposite sides of the cube (1 + 6 = 7), as well as two and five (2 + 5 = 7) and three and four (3 + 4 = 7). And if you want to know more about this amazing but useless,The Guardianoffers a deeper explanation.

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You have 13.8% more likely to die for your birthday.

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According to a 2012 study published in the magazineAnnals of epidemiology, humans are 13.8% more likely to die at their birthday than on another day of the year. It is in accordance with the statistics of Swiss mortality from 1969 to 2008. We have to say that this study is (morbid) interesting!

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Playing dance music can help keep mosquitoes away.

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Play electronic dance music (EDM) could be exactly what you need to scare thesemosquitoes pages in summer. According to a 2019 study published in the journalACTA Topica, theSkrillex Song "Frightening and beautiful sprites" combines "very high frequencies" as well as "excessive funbility and excessive height" "that discourages the mosquito of yellow fever of victims and bites.

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The king of hearts is the only king of a deck of cards without mustache.

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There are four kings in each cards bridge. And while they all look like likers, the king of hearts is the only royal boy who does not have a mustache. According toThe GuardianThe so-called "king suicide" (who won his name because he seems to stab in his head with a sword) was not always in the naked face. He lost his hair from the face in a redesign.

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"Dreamed" is the only word of the English language that ends with "Mt".

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The English language is full of idiosyncrasies and the word "dreamed" is one of them. According toOxford dictionaries, "dreamed" (and its variations, such as "undreamt"), is the only word of the English language that ends with the letters "Mt".

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These metal crampons on your jeans have a name and purpose.

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The next time you wear a pair of jeans, take a look at the pockets. Do you see these small metal crampons on the corners? They are not just there to add extra pizza to your pants; they or theyactually have a goal. Thoserivets, according toLevi Strauss & Co., are placed on some spots to add additional support where denim is more likely to wear and tear.

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A Greek-Canadian man invented the "Hawaiian" pizza.

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There will always be ferocious debates on the fact that pineapple takes place or not a pizza, but there is no doubt that the Hawaiian pizza originally came from: Chatham, Ontario, Canada! Owner of a restaurantSam Panopouloswas born in Greece but moved to Canada at the age of 20. And in 1962, the contractor decided to put pineapple on a pizza.

Panopoulos, who died in 2017, once said theBBC"We have just put it, just for the pleasure of that, see how it was going to taste. We were young in the business and we were doing a lot of experiences." The name apparently came from the pineapple brand canned that Panopoulos used this fateful day, he invented the Hawaiian pizza.

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If you open the eyes in a black piece of pitch, the color you will see is called "Eigengrau".

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Go to the darkest room you can find, one where there is no light at all and spend a few minutes with your eyes closed. Then open them and take a look around you. While you were waiting to look in the darkness, you will actually notice that you see a kind of dark gray shade. And this color has a name: it's called "Eigengrau. "

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Cats can not taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.

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Cats can skip surprisingly high, slide through the tightest spaces and has apparently nine lives. But there is one thing they can not do: taste sweet things. According to an article in 2007 inAmerican scientist, unlike other mammals, Felines can not taste the sweetness of the fact that they "lack 247 pairs of amino acid bases that make up the DNA of theTAS1R2 uncomfortable. As a result, it does not code for the appropriate protein ... and does not allow cats to taste candies. "

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It is possible to transform peanut butter into diamonds.

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Although most of us are happy to slap peanut butter between two slices of bread, scientistJelly Among the Bayerisches Geoointstitute in Germany have something a little different with his peanut butter: he made a diamond. Groge studies the conditions of the mantle of the earth and found ways to imitate them in its laboratory. According toBBCThe high mantle pressures can harm the oxygen of carbon dioxide and leave behind the carbon to form a diamond. And as peanut butter is already rich in carbon, Frost was able to transform hazelnut goodness into a brilliant jewel.

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A group of hippopotamuses is called a "inflator".

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If you have already seen a group of hippopotamuses, you can inform everyone around you that you look at a "inflator". TheBBC landscaped the story behind the word that comes fromThe book of St Albans (also known as the nameThe Falcon, Hunting and Blasing Book of Arms), written byJuliana Berners, a picious English Benedictine of the 15th century. She proposed several terms to describe groups of animals, including a "swarm of bees" and a "geese gaggle".

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Pogonophobia is the fear of barbs.

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You probably know your fair share of men who give some kind of face hair. But if you suffer frompogonophobia-The fear of the beards - so you prefer to avoid them. And it turns out,This fear could be justified: A 2018 study published in the newspaperEuropean radiology Suggests that barbs contain "significantly higher" amounts of bacteria than dogs.

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Alaska is the only state whose name is on a row on a keyboard.

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With "a" and "s" being next to the other on the middle row of the standard QWERTY keyboard and "K" and "L" on the other side of the same line, Alaska is the only name d State that you can type using a single line on a keyboard.

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And "TesseraDecades", "Aftercataracades" and "Pulldehedresses" are the longest words you can type by using your left hand only.

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If you find yourself only able to use theleft side of your computer's keyboardThere are still many words that you can tap. Using q, w, e, r, t, a, s, d, f, g, z, x, c, v and b - the letters on the left side of the standard keyboard - you can not only exploit tesseler as "tesseradecades "," After the Cartarcades "and" Pullderes ", you can also type" Super "" Vast "" Vast "" Water, "Starter", "Cascades," "Retract" "" "" Trees, " "Cellars", "Crest", "Waver" "Rutter," "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" Gaspée "" stop "and (maybe" The best of all) "Abracadabra! "

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The average adult spends more time on the toilets than to exercise.

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According to a 2017 study byBritish non-profit ukactive, Adults spend an average of 3 hours and 9 minutes on the toilet every week, but only 1 hour and 30 minutes physically active during the same period. Perhaps that somewhat useless, but also motivating makes we need to hear about the gym.

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Your nails grow faster on your dominant hand.

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If you have already broken a decline in nails near the base - or have lost completely, you know they take some time to iron. In fact, theAmerican Academy of DermatologySays that a nail takes about six months to push the base at the tip and nails can take up to a year. But some factors tend to accelerate this process: the nails grow faster on your dominant hand as well as on your biggest fingers, and nails also grow faster during the day as well as during the summer months.

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A "Jiffy" is about a billion second.

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You have probably said that you will be "back in a jiffy" at least several times in your life. But what you could do not realize maybe is that you have made a promise that you could not keep. According toDictionary.com, a "jiffy" is a unit of time and very short to that. During the end of the 18th century or the beginning of the 19th century, scientificGilbert Newton Lewis Defined to a jiffy as the time it takes from light to travel a centimeter in a vacuum cleaner, about 33.4 picoseconds or a billion second. It's a little short time (and almost useless)!

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The dragonflies have six legs but can not walk.

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You may have seen a dragonfly hanging on a plant in your garden or zipper in the air over a pond. But we can guarantee you that you have never seen dragonfly scrolling on a picnic table or walk along a branch. It's because, despite six legs like other insects,The dragonfly legs are too weak For them to walk for long quantities of time.

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Golf balls tend to have 336 "dimples".

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When you are on the golf course, you probably pay more attention to your club than you use that the details of each golf ball. But if you have read the details, you could discover that your golf balls can have between 300 and 500 grades ", although most tend to have 336. According to theDepartment of Physics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign"Golf balls are usually covered with grades in a very symmetrical way", which "is important or the ball will flicker."

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Montpelier, Vermont, is the only US capital without McDonald's.

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In many cities, you can take a shift book or a few McNuggets on all other blocks. However, it's not so easy for Montpelier residents, Vermont, get a great Mac. This is because it's the only US state capital that does not have McDonald's. As the smallest state capital in terms of population (about 7,500), the city has no burger king either. Sorry, lovers lovers! To enjoy a fast food chain meal, Montpelier residents can simplyHead to the nearby bar.

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Apple seeds contain cyanide.

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As they say,An apple a day keeps the doctor awayYou eat too many apple seeds, that is to say. The tiny black seeds found in the fruits contain a vegetable compound called tonsillin which turns into hydrogen cyanide if the seeds are chewed or digested, according toMedical News Today. Seeing that cyanide is toxic (even fatal at high doses), you should certainly spit these seeds. Do the same for apricot, peach and cherry seeds, which also contain the compound.

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Mulan has the highest number of killers of any Disney character.

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Mulan is fierce, brave and incredibly inspiring. But she is also incredibly deadly. In fact, she was not just the first disney princess to kill someone on the screen in the film of 1998Humanbut it also has the highest number of killers of everythingDisney, according toUnilad. Mulan has subscribed nearly 2,000 people during the animation film, including the nasty leader Hun, Shan Yu and 1,994 huns, triggering an avalanche.

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A cube thumb of human bone can support the weight of five standard pickup trucks.

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Human bodies can sometimes feel vulnerable and fragile. But if you want to feel like a superhero, keep in mind that human bone is really stronger than steel and concrete. "The bone is an extraordinarily strong ounce of the ounce, the bone is stronger than the steel because a steel bar of comparable size weighs four or five times as much," biomedical engineerCindy Bir RecountLive science In 2010. "A cube thumb of OS can in principle bear a charge of 19,000 pounds (8.626 kg) or more, more than the weight of five standard capture trucks, which makes about four times stronger than concrete . "

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A bird of frigate can sleep while flying.

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Birds can do rather amazing things. For example, frigate birds can sleep while flying. It's because they can snooze while using a single haemisphere of the brain at a time, according to a 2016 study published in the newspaperNature Communications.

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Jupiter is twice as massive than all other combined planets.

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Perhaps you already knew that Jupiter was the greatest planet of all. But did you just knowHow? 'Or' What fat? Not only is this more than twice as massive than all other combined planets, but if the earth was the size of a grape, Jupiter would be the size of a basketball, according toNasa.

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Your body contains about 100,000 miles of blood vessels.

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The blood vessels are incredibly small, measuring about five micrometers (for reference, a strand of our hair is about 17 micrometers). However, because we have so much in our body,The Franklin Institute Explain that if you put them in one row, the blood vessels of a child stretched more than 60,000 miles, while an adult measured about 100,000 miles long.

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The small point above a tiny "I" and "J" has a name.

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While many other languages ​​include written accents throughout their alphabets, English has only two letters that include a "diacritical point", according toDictionary.com. This small brand you do on a tiny "J" and a tiny "j" is called "a title". This is probably a combination of "tiny" and "small" words since it is an ITTY-BITTY point.

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Chicken and ostrich are the closest living parents of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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While we thought the dinosaurs were giant creatures like the giant lizard that traversed the Earth, it is now widely accepted that dinosaurs have more common with current birds than over-wired reptiles. To researchHarvard University In 2008, confirmed that the tyrannosaurus Rex shared more of its genetic makeup with ostriches and chickens with alligators and crocodiles.

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There is a trademark on the dark shadow of the world's black.

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By the end of 2010, artistAnish Kapoor won the exclusive rights to use the color calledvantoldack, the "black black", which means that no other artist can use it. It did not sit with other creative types, soStuart Semple created the "rose pink, "that he has made available to all except Kapoor.

It even included a message to potential buyers, writing, "adding this product to your cart, you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are by no means affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you do not give up this article. On behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, your information and your conviction, this painting will not be carried out by Anish Kapoor's hand. "

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The average American spends about 2.5 days a year in search of lost items.

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When Pixie Wireless Tracker ordered thelarger independent investigation lost and found In the United States in April 2017, research showed that Americans spend about 2.5 days each year looking for their lost objects. The most commonly misplaced articles, according to the survey, are remote controls, phones, keys and glasses. Fortunately, the survey also found that 29% of people who lost their wallet or their handbag were returned to them. These are very good chances!

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If you plug in your nose, you can not tell the difference between an apple, a potato and an onion.

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If you have already been told to pinch your nose while taking medications so you do not have to suffer through the terrible taste, you may want to follow this advice. Our sense of smell is responsible for the interpretation of about 80% of what we have tasted, according to theCenter of Odorat and taste of the University of Florida. This means that without being able to feel the apples, potatoes and onions, they are indistinguishable. If you want to watch a few people, try,Discover this video of the food beast. Or do you just trust us - it works!

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The punctuation was not always part of our written language.

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It would almost impossible to read properly without periods, commas, exclamation points and question mark. But it turns out that punctuation was not always part of our written language. According toBBC, a librarian namedAristophanes From the Egyptian city of Alexandria to the 3rd century BC attempt to introduce a form of punctuation into a system that not only did not use it, but also did not bother to use capital letters or to include Spaces between words. While the version of the Aristophanes of punctuation did not stand around, Christian writers in the 6th century began to punctuate their text and possibly we ended up by the punctuation system we use today.

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The real name of Monopoly Mascot Uncle Pennybags is milburn pennybags.

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The monopoly game dates back to 1903, according toThe New York Times. And although this has been seen many changes over the years, the current version we know and love presents a high chic hat with a mustache that holds a cane. While you may know him as rich pennybags uncle, hisThe real name is milburn pennybags. And he is not the only member of the game that has a name. The policeman monopoly is officially calledEdgar Mallory Officer.

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The Infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

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If you had to draw ainfinite signYou will create a sort of eight figure that loops in a continuous and uninterrupted line. You might also say that you sketch alemniscate, which is another word for the infinite sign and means "decorated with ribbons" in Latin.

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Taco Bell was named after his owner, Glen Bell.

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Taco Bell can have a big bell on its logo, but the fast food chain did not take its name from the musical instrument. The restaurant was actually appointed by owner,Clothes Glene, Which opened the first walk of Bell-In and Taco Tia in San Bernardino, California, in 1954. The first restaurant in Bell is called Taco Bell opened in Downey, California, in 1962.

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You can not hunt camels in Arizona.

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While we were hoping that you would not chase a camel, even if you saw it, you should know that in Arizona, it's actually illegal, according to theBar Association of Maricopa County. And although it may seem like unnecessary law, it was once totally necessary. It's becauseThe camels made, in fact, populate the desert of Arizona back in the 1800s after beingbrought to the United States by the US military.

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There are giant Technicolor squirrels in India.

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The squirrels of your neighborhood are probably brown, black or gray. But in southern India, there are giant technical squirrels. Weighing about four pounds and up to three feet from the head to the tail, the Giant squirrel of Malabar is more like a rainbow-inspired muppet than something you would find in the United States. Amateur photographerKaushik Vijayan was able to break somespectacular Shots a creature in 2019 and saidCBS News, "I felt so amazed at the way the dead are beautiful. It was really a jaw view to see."

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The inventor of Pringles is buried in a prings can.

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In 1966Fredric Baur developed the ingenious idea for Procter & Gamble uniformly stacked chips in a can instead of throwing them in a bag.

Baur was so proud of his invention that he wanted to take it to the grave - literally. He communicated his wildlife wishes to his family and when he died at 89 years old, his children stopped at Walgreens on the path of the funeral home to buy the prings of the burial of his ashes. They had a decision to do, however. "My brothers and sisters and briefly debated the flavor to be used," said Baur's eldest son.Time. "But I said," Look, we have to use the original. "And that's exactly what they went with.

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The rolling mountains can help you move renal calculations.

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After several people claimed that they had passed renal calculations while rolling the great Walt Disney World World Railway Walk, aResearch Team from Michigan State University Decided to take a look at the situation in 2016. When they performed tests using a kidney model, they found that there was a success rate of 64% for those sitting behind the back of Russian mountains. But this number was only 16% for those sitting at the front.

Unfortunately, it has only worked on Big Thunder Mountain. "We tried the spatial mountain and rock 'N' Rock 'N' Russian mountains of Aerosmith and have both failed," the main author of the studyDavid Wartintin, a teacher emeritus in the department of osteopathic surgical specialties of the state of Michigan, stated in a declaration. "The ideal mountains are rough and fast with twists, but not movements upside down or reversed."

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The biggest scrambled eggs never focused nearly 3.5 tons.

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they say thatBreakfast is the most important meal of the day. And if you are the kind of person who wakes up hungry, while your mouth go on the fact that in October 2019, the Nacional Federación of poultry farmers did thelarger scrambled eggs ever, a process that took enough leaders.

After mixing 59 758 eggs - with a lot of butter, milk, onion and garlic - the rooted dish weighing 6,860 pounds and 12.57 ounces, about 3.4 tons. The saucepan used to prepare the history dish was more than 39 feet long and 13 feet wide.

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Dr. Seuss invented the word "nerd".

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Dr. Seussis responsible for coming with wild words and moving. But we can also thank the author of the Children's Book for a very common term: Nerd.American heritage dictionary explains that "nerd" appeared for the first time in the 1950 book of Seuss' 1950If I ran the zoo. The passage reads as follows: ", Just to show them, I will sail at Ka-Troo and bring back an IT-Katch, a pree and a proo. A nerchle, a nerd and a seersucker too!"

According toMerriam Webster, one year later,Newsweek Included the word "nerd" in an article on the last slang, written, "to Detroit, a person who would be called once a drip or a square is now, unfortunately, a nerd or in less serious cases, a scarve . " Unfortunately, "Scurve" has not caught in the same way.

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"Spoonfeed" is the longest English word with its inverted alphabetic letters.

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The word nine letters "spoon"Is the longest word spelled with letters arranged completely in reversed alphabetical order." Trollied "comes second with eight letters.

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There is a city called "Rome" on each continent except Antarctica

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If you are trying to locate Rome on a map, you will probably head in the country of Italy in the form of startup. But Europe is not the only continent that decided to use this particular name, or rather of the Italian version, "Roma". In fact, there is a Rome on each continent except Antarctica, according toNational Geographic.

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The pious and the squid have three hearts.

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You surely know what to look like when your heart begins to pump wildly, so imagine what it must be like for an octopus or a squid, that everyone hasthree hearts. The cephalopods both have a systemic heart that circulates the blood around the body and two branching hearts that peak blood across the gills.

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The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971.

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Ray tomlinsonis often credited to invent emails (although this claim has been challenged). He sent the first e-mail message while trying to get out of the revolutionary online communication form in 1971. "The test messages were fully forgotten and so I have forgotten,"He wrote on his website. "Most likely, the first message was Qwertyuiop or something similar. When I was convinced that the program seemed to work, I sent a message to the rest of my group explaining how to send messages on the network. The first use of the email has announced its own existence. "

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The plush at the bottom of your pocket has a name.

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At one point, for some reason, someone decided to give a teddy name that collects at the bottom of your pockets. And this name is hilarious "wildebeest. "

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Massachusetts houses the island of Busta Rhymes.

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In Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, there is a small piece of ground of 1,600 square feet that sticks in a pond. This small neighborhood may not have an official name, but some know it asBusta Rimes Island-Yes, as inBusta rhymes the rapper. Resident ShrewsburyKevin O'Brien Has been diligently geo-marking the place on Google Maps in the hope that it will finally be known by the moniker.

However, a celebrity must have been dead for at least five years before a place can be officially named after them - and it will probably be (hopefully) being a while until each Massachusetts card lists the island of Busta Rhymes.

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Ketchup was used medicinely in the early 1800s.

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It's hard to imagine Ketchup without the sweet taste of the tomatoey, but when the condiment was originally invented, it was actually a mixture made from fish or fungus. Ohio doctorJohn Cook Bennetwas one of the first people to add tomatoes to Ketchup in 1834,Fast business reports. And as it was rich in vitamins and antioxidants, the doctor asserted that the product he sold in the form of a pill, could help treat diarrhea and indigestion.

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The full name of Cap'n Crunch is Captain Horaio Magellan Crunch.

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Even occasional cereal eaters probably know that Krispie rice mascots are called Snap, Crakle and Pop. But only cereal connoisseurs will be able to tell you that Cap'n Crunch is only a nickname. The next time you enjoy a bowl for breakfast, you can tell everyone around you that its full name is much more formal:Captain Horaio Magellan Crunch (Yes, Magellan, like Portuguese ExplorerFerdinand Magellan)

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Film trailers have their name because they were originally shown after the movie.

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If you have already wondered whyFilm overview are called "trailers" even if they are shownbeforeA movie, then you will be interested to discover that their name was once more accurate. When trailers were introduced for the first time in the early 1910s, the first being for aCharlie Chaplinfilm-they were shown after the movie, that is "" trailing ". But when the advertisers understood that the hearings immediately left after the end of the functionality film, the" trailers "were moved to the Preview position, where they stay today with their ironic name.

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People are used to answering the phone saying "Ahoy" instead of "Hello".

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When the public started using the phone in the 1800s, inventorAlexander Graham Bell thought they should answer a call with "Ahoy". (This is probably why Mr. Burns onThe simpsons said "Ahoy-Hoy" when he takes the phone.) However, Bell rival,Thomas Edison, wanted users to respond to the phone with "Hello". And, according toThe New York TimesIn 1880, "Hello" had won.

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Pound Gake originally included a book of all his ingredients.

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Desserts do not need to be super complicated to be delicious. Take the book cake, for example. Not only is it made from some fairly current-butter ingredients, eggs, sugar and flour, but its name comes from the fact that the original recipe called for a book of each article, according toWhat cooks America. Although it can look like a lot, the simple recipe (which goes back to Great Britain in the 1700s) was easy to remember for a moment when everyone could not read.

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You would probably be "mutative" in space without Spacesuit.

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We have all seen movies where people are sucked in space before meeting their misfortune in different horrible ways. However, the truth is probably much more intense. According toIFL Science, If you ended up in the outdoor space without Spacesuit, "you will swell, burn, mutate, pass, and your lungs could explode." Do you question me about this mutation element? Well, IFL science explains that UV photons and other high-energy photons (X-rays and gamma radiation) "will damage your DNA, causing mutations that can cause cancer (if you have survived)."

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The rainbows were called "arcs of promise" in Victorian English.

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The word "rainbow" is already one of themost beautiful words in English. And it turns out that those who spoke about Victorian English had a similar term for breathtaking arches of multicolored light, according toThe Washington Post: "bows of promise."

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An earthquake could have a narrowed Mount Everest.

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The powerful Mount Everest was first measured in 1856 by the great trigonometric investigation of India and was judged by 29 002 feet in height, according toSmithsonianmagazine. However, in recent years, geometers have developed different numbers for the height of the peak (although its official height is 29,029 feet, thanks to an investigation of the 1950s). And although it may be just a human error that has led to these contraindications, another reason why the discrepancies could be that Everest has changed in recent years.

In April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Himalayas and Rohapi parts of the mountain range,Scientific alert reported. Satellite data showed that some areas around Kathmandu rose and the Langtang area dropped up to five feet while Everest flowed around an inch.

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The tool used to measure your feet in the shoe store is called a "branching device".

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Whenever you had a new pair of shoes like a child, your parents had probably to sit in the store while the shoe seller was measuring your foot with a weird metal tool. You probably have never given a walk-walking contract for a second thought. But if you were curious, it happens to be called aBrannock device, and he was invented byCharles Brannock and patented in 1926. His Brannock Device Corporation has since returned them.

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There is an optical illusion at the bottom of the sea.

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There are so many wonders waiting to be discoveredoff the ocean and scientists met one of them in March 2019. While exploring an underwater volcano with a remote control vehicle, about 6,500 feet under the sea, they spotted what seemed to be a small swimming pool Lake type upside down (and, obviously, submarine). And if it does not seem that it makes sense, it's because it does not do it.

With aVideo of the underwater illusionThe expedition of the Ocean Institute of Schmidt Ocean explains: "The liquid in these upside down pools is the hydrothermal vent liquid. Up to 320 degrees of temperature, it is a "soup" of hard chemicals, including sulfur and metals, which allows the life to prosper in a deep dark ocean. "

Mandy Joye, a professor at the University of Georgia and the scientific director of the expedition, saidSmithsonianmagazine That "the immense beauty and majesty of the scene was overwhelming. It's something I'll never forget."

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Space trip runs mice in loops.

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Scientists are aware that spatial tripsTake a toll on the human body. But it turns out that it is toodoes something strange to the mouse. When 20 rodents were sent to the International Space Station, they started running suddenly in loops around their cage after only one week, according to a 2019 study published inScientific reports. Once a mouse started running, the others quickly joined. While the researchers did not know exactly why the mice acted like race cars that turned a track at the top speed, they think that little creatures could have just enjoyed "enriching effects of physical exercise."

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Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.

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During the Second World War, then 18 years oldPrincess Elizabeth was a member of the women's auxiliary territorial department, making his only woman in theBritish royal family Having served in the armed forces and the only head of state living to serve the Second World War.

Second subordinateELIZABETH WINDSORas it was called during his service, formed as a mechanic truck and military truck pilot, according toTime. Interestingly, Her Majesty is also the only person in Great Britain whodoes not need a driver's license get behind the steering wheel!

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The average American produces 4.5 pounds of waste per day.

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According toUnited States Environmental Protection AgencyIn 2017, Americans produced an average of 4.51 pounds of waste per person per day. Paper and cardboard products were the largest guilty, garden fittings, plastic products and consumption electronics are also a major part of the trash. And although it can look like a lot of waste, it was actually one of the lowest estimates since 1990. We are definitely improving when it comes toTake care of the earth!

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A man has fixed a world record by putting 260 t-shirts at a time.

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WhenTed Hastings' The son asked him if he could give a Guinness World record, he decided to make him try. And on February 17, 2019, he reached his goal bywearing 260 t-shirts at a time. Hastings could get 20 shirts by himself, but after that, he needed a team assistance to help him in sizes ranging from medium to 20x. Around the 150-t-shirt brand, there were concerns about Hastings to breathe ability due to the weight of the fabric, but it was determined to continue going and break the previous record of 257 shirts.

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The dolphins give them names.

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According to a 2013 study published inActs of the National Academy of SciencesThe bottles dolphins each have their own special whistles, which looks like human names. "Gypsy dolphins are developing their own unique identity signal, the whistling of the signature," the researchers said. "This individual identity code whistle independently of voice characteristics. The copy of the signatory whistles can therefore allow animals to adapt or address each other."

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And lazy can hold their breath longer than dolphins.

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You probably imagine a laziness in a tree or to make their way from one branch to another. But it could also be in the water. In fact, the arms of the animal, both long and strong, make them big swimmers. And you do not have to worry about their slow moving means being a problem: according to theZSL London Zoo, lazy can hold their breath up for 40 minutes, which is30 minutes more than a dolphin.

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"Schoolmaster" is an anagram of "classroom".

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"Schoolmaster" is an old school word for a male teacher. It is also an anagram (which means that it uses exactly the same letters) as "the class".

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There is only one fortified city in North America.

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The next time you plan a trip and you want to head somewhere at the same time breathtaking and incredibly unique, checkThe Quebec City in Canada. In the capital of the province of Quebec, the region of the Old Town (Old Quebec) is the only fortified city of North America. It wasbased by the French explorerSamuel Champlain At the beginning of the 17th century.

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Crows know when someone spies him.

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Crows are notoriously intelligent creatures - as long as they are aware of the surveillance. A 2016 study published in the magazineNature CommunicationsI found that the super intelligents displayed what is called "the theory of the mind", which is the ability to attribute mental states to others. This means that crows can say when someone (or something) can see them. In the 2016 study, the researchers put this idea to the test and found that the crows acted as if they knew they were monitored when there was an open peephole available for other birds for other birds for other birds to spy.

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Frank Sinatra was offered the role of star inDie when he was in his 70s.

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Bruce Willis played the legendary John McClane in theDie franchise. But before Willis landed the role in the films packed per share,The game was offered to the singerFrank Sinatra, who was in his 70s at the time. Although it may seem strange, all of this has to do with a legal obligation.

The film was based on the 1979Roderick Thorp novelNothing lasts eternally, which was a follow-up of 1966The detective.In 1968, this novel had been transformed into a film featuring Sinatra (not like John McClane, but like Joe Leland, a former New York cop that became a private investigator). When Sinatra signed forThe detectiveIt is in his contract that the studio had to offer him the main part of the suite. However, when it ends up happening, the blue eyes refused the role.

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Sleeping through the summer is called "summer".

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You know sure that when bears and other animals sleeps through winter cold weather, it's called "hibernation". But did you know that there is a name to sleep during the summer? If you go snooze the months soaked by the sun, then you will deliver to »summer. "Escargots, turtles, salamanders and crocodiles all are all touring, as well as the Malagasy Dwarf Lemurian of East Africa.

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You produce about six stool books a week.

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Some of us eat more than others, but according toKim BarrettProfessor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, on average, men and women, both produce about 14 ounces of feces each day. This equates to just over six pounds a week!

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About 16 million people living today are direct descendants of Genghis Khan.

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Genghis Khan was not only known to be the leader of the Mongolian Empire from 1206 to 1227 - he also angry aparcel Children. In fact, he grew up so much offspring than 2003historical genetics paper found That approximately 16 million people living today are his direct descendants.

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The frucer pizza has never been surmounted by 154 varieties of cheese.

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Johnny di Francesco of the 400 Gradidi restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, set theGlobal Registration of Guinness for Ginged Pizza By creating a pie using 154 different types of cheeses. Di Francesco said he was inspired by the film 2014Ninja turtles teenage mutants in which the Character Donatello says that a 99 cheese pizza was a "culinary impossibility. "

In direct response to the film, Di Francesco arrived at a pizza surmounted by 99 kinds of cheeses. And that was so successful, he wanted to surpass himself. "We had an overwhelming answer from our customers, so they asked to have a permanent menu item," he told Guinness World Records. "Since then, we have decided to make ante and create a pizza of 154 cheese. So my excuses donatello, impossibility culinary reduced!"

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Pope John Paul II was a GlobeTrotter Harlem Harlem.

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When you think of the Pope, you probably consider a holy man in dresses, not an athlete. CornPope John Paul II Was actually a member of one of the most famous basketball teams in the world.

In 2000, the Harlem GlobeTrotters made the head of the Catholic Church an honorary member of their team. TheCbc reported that the owner and president of the team,Mannie JacksonAnd some players met the Pope during a visit to the Vatican City where the Pontiff received an autographed basketball and his own jersey.

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Basenji dogs are the only breed that does not lack.

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Some smaller dogs have acute barking, while big dogs tend to have deep screams and low grunts. But Basenji is a dog breed thatdoes not lack at all-Bien that it does not mean they are silent. Instead, according to theKennel American Club, "They make their feelings known with an odd sound described as something between a chortle and a yodel."

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The most common password is "123456."

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I hope thePasswords you chooseare unexpected and cryptic, unlike the vast majority of people who still use incredibly common. According to an analysis bySplashdata, mostPopular passwords of 2018 was "123456." Which was followed by "password", "123456789" 12345678, "" 12345678 "," "12345", "" 111111 "," "1234567", then, deliciously, "Sunshine" and "Iloveyou".

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The largest invoice to enter the United States was a $ 10,000 rating.

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Although your portfolio can be filled with $ 5, $ 10, $ 20, $ 50, or even $ 100 bills, the government has already decided that it would be useful to have some higher denominations available. That's why there were $ 500 bills, $ 1,000 and even a value of $ 5,000.

But the biggest note ever emitted for the public traffic was the bill of $ 10,000, whichfeatured a portrait ofSalmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. The bills were printed for the first time in 1945 and July 14, 1969, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced that theMore important tickets would be arrested lack of use.

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Your brain messages browse your nerves up to 200 miles on time.

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The human body is capable of amazing things. For example, when your brain sends messages via your nerves, the signals travel along billions of nerve cells (neurons), synapses and neurotransmitters in a process that can be as fast as 200 miles per hour, according toNational Geographic.

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The 100-year property of Marie Curie are still radioactive.

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Nobel Winner ScientistMarie Curie Deceased as a result of the vast amounts of radiation that it has been exposed during its revolutionary work. But his body was not the only thing to absorb emissions. His clothes and property, including furniture, cookbooks and laboratory notes, have also been saturated with lethal radium particles. That's why even though Curie died about 85 years ago, his property is still radioactive, according toThe Christian scientist.

And as the radium has a half-life of 1,601 years, they are likely to remain in this way for a moment. Currently, Curie's laboratory notebooks are safely stored in boxes bordered by lead at the National Library of France in Paris. Anyone who wants to see them must first sign a waiver of responsibility, then accepting protective gear.

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Most of the world's pandas are loan from China.

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If you are lucky, you may be able to see a panda or two in a nearby zoo, but that the cute creature is probably on the loan from China. In fact, theThe majority of pandas around the world come from China Or, if they are born elsewhere, should be sent to a Chinese reproduction program before transforming four to expand the species gene pool.

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Sweat does not feel bad.

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Yes, you could stick when you are sweaty, but it's not the sweat that smells.Medical News Today Explains that the body odor - also known as B.O., the osmidrosis or ozochrotica bromHidrosis - is actually caused by bacteria decomposing the protein with sweat and transforming it into (unpleasant) acids. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about it except shower, of course.

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More than two-thirds of millennia sleep naked.

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There are two types of people in this world: those who like to sleep bare and those who could never get lost if they do not wear suitable PJS. But according to a survey conducted in 2018 byMattressAdvisor.com, many people prefer to lie down in the buff. The survey found that 65% of millennia sleep in the nude.

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The average person has four to six dreams one night.

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If you have more than 10 years, you probably have about four to six dreams every night,The National Sleep Foundation said. And, according to a 2003 study published by theAssociation for the study of dreamsThe most common dreams include being sued or prosecuted, down, school and study and sexual experiences.

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Maryland has tried to ban the song of Randy Newman's "Short People".

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In 1977Randy Newman Blood, "The little people had no reason to live ... Well, I do not want no short people round here ...." While this is meant to be a satirical take on intolerance and prejudice of those shortsighted, Maryland has not taken manages to air. In 1978 delegateIsaiah Dixon Jr. tried to introduceLegislation to make it illegal To play the song on the radio, offer a $ 500 fine. However, his efforts failed; The deputy attorney general said that the move would violate the First Amendment.

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The military US Air introduced Bob Ross painting.

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LateBob Ross, a host ofThe joy of paintingI was known to be a mild performer with a hairstyle signature and a wonderful talent for painting dreamlike landscapes filled with happy trees. But perhaps would never have been the painter that we have come to worship if he had not been in the US Air Force, according to an interview withOrlando Sentinel. While increasing to the rank of master sergeant, Ross was also able to take a painting class and was inspired by the landscape in Alaska where he was stationed. The state's landscape often appear in his work throughout his career.

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The sun represents over 99% of the mass of our solar system.

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The land may seem like a huge place, but our planet is incredibly small compared to the sun, which is an incredible 99.8% of our entire solar system, according to expertsSpace.com.

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There is a small house in Virginia called "Spite House" because that's why it was built.

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In the district of Old Town Alexandria, VirginiaJohn Hollensbury once owning a house on Queen Street. He apparently hated the fact that wagons pulled by horses would move into the alley next to his building and did not like the people who liked to go out in either space. So to say, he built a second small house in the alley to keep everyone, this is how the house earned its name: the "house of Spite" accordingThe New York Times. The house is 7 feet wide and 25 feet deep. There is also a patio outside Murre dating back 12 extra feet.

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In ancient Christian art, good angels and Satan were red was blue.

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If you were to draw the devil, you probably give him horns, a tail and a fork. And even if you have decided to take some creative liberties, there is still a good chance that you would do your red demon from head to toe. But this is a modern interpretation. TheThe oldest representations of Satan In early Christian art actually showed him a blue angel, while the good angels were red.

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The first packet of ball NERF said the toy "can not hurt babies or old people."

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When Parker Brothers published the first Nerf ball in 1970, they wanted the public to be security conscious than four inches of foam toy. Doing that, they includedText on the box That said buyers', throw it inside. You can not damage the lamp or break the windows. " They also added: "You can not hurt babies or the elderly." What a POS!

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The largest sculpture bamboo has supported more than 164 feet high.

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In April 2019, the Foundation Kasama Kita Sa Barangay Bayambang and the inhabitants of the Philippines have set theGuinness World Record for the highest sustained structural bamboo. They built a sculpture of St. Vincent Ferrer representing 164 feet 9 inches tall.

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AHarry Potter book filled with typos sold $ 90,000.

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Although American readers may recognize the book asHarry Potter at Sorcerers School, British history was originally entitledHarry Potter and Philosophale Stone. And when some of the first editions have been printed, there were errors inside. At the top of the word "philosopher" being misspelled on the back cover, "1 baguette" has been listed twice when he arrived at Harry supplies were supposed to go to school. When one of these bookswas for sale at auction In March 2019, he sold $ 90,000 in amazing.

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There is a formed metal asteroid as a dog bone named "Kleopatra".

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The space is filled with all kinds of wonders, including an asteroid called "KleopatraAlthough it looks like an Egyptian queen, the metal minor planet - which has two of its own moons, Alexhelios and Cléoselene - is a form similar to a dog bone.

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The cows of Queen Elizabeth II sleep on the water beds.

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It is evenQueen Elizabeth II's Cows enjoy a luxury life. The 165 dairy cows of the monarch spend a lot of their time relaxing and relaxing on the beds of water, saidMark Osman, the Royal Farm Manager in Windsor Great Park, in an episode ofBBCCountryfile. "As the cow is, the water grows under the pressure points where the cow and the cow end up floating," he said.

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A journalist in 1950 predicted that women in 2000 would be amazons like a wonderful woman.

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In 1950, aAssociated press Article entitled "How experts think we will live in 2000 adjustment" included aprediction publisherDorothy Roe, who thought that in the future, the average woman "exceeds Diana, Aka Wonder Woman.

"She will be more than six feet high, wear a shoe size 11, have the shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver," Roo said. "Its proportions will be perfect, but Amazon, because science has developed a balanced ration of vitamins, proteins and minerals that will produce the maximum body efficiency, the minimum of fat. She also thought that women would renounce traditional meals and instead of opting for "food capsules. »

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A British teen changed his name for "Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk and the Combined Flash."

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In 2008, then 19 years oldGeorge GarrattR.U. Legally changed his name to this incredibly long sobriquet, which was considered the longest name in the world. Once he "decided on a superhero theme," it just seems to go for it.

Unfortunately, the change of name also meant that his grandmother did not speak more about him, Captain Fantastic saysTelegraph.

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According to the Bible, the chicken came before the egg.

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If you take a Bible and return toGenesis 1: 20-22You will find the following: "And God says: that the waters are swarming of swarms of living creatures, and that birds fly over the earth towards the extent of the sky." God created the great creatures of the sea and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their species, and any winged bird according to its species. And God saw that it was good. And God blesses them, saying: Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters from the seas and that the birds multiply on the earth. »

Therefore, according to Moses, who is credited to write Genesis, God has made the birds first and the egg would have come after when these birds were "fruitful" and multiplied.

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Scientists have discovered the fossil of a monster aged 430 million years.

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Those who love crawling creatures probably know that CThulhu is a fictional monster that the first jumped intoP. is H. Lovecraft 1928 taleCThulhu's call. And in 2019, when scientists discovered a fossil of 430 million years with tentacle as characteristics that reminded them of Cthulhu (which was a bit like an octopus), they officially called the newly discovered speciesSOLLASINA CTHULHU, According to research, they published in theActs of the Royal Society B.

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Facial reconstruction was used to see what dogs looked like 4000 years ago.

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In April 2019,Historical Environment Scotland (EME) gave us a look at a neolithic dog who lived about 4000 years ago, or rather, they gave us a glimpse of what old canineProbablylooked like a skull that was found in 1901 in Scotland. A skull CT-scan has been taken and has been created 3D printing, which medico-legal artistAmy Thornton Then used as a basis for adding fake muscle, skin and hair, which in a puppy model.

"Looking at this dog helps us better tell people who have been busy and venerated these animals," Manager of interpretationSteve Farrar Explain.

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The bubonic plague encouraged Shakespeare to write poetry.

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To try to prevent the plague of spreading in the back the time of Shakespeare, many public places have been closed until the enhanced things. This is why the theaters were closed in January 1593 and does not reopen until the spring of 1594. This closure means that playwrights likeWilliam Shakespeare were temporarily out of work. And it's when the bard spent his timeWriting poetry Instead of focusing on his famous pieces. It is likely that when he started his 154 sonnets.

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Antarctica is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth.

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The continent is "internationally governed" by theAntarctic Treaty, Which includes Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. However, the earth can not be used for "peaceful purposes", and a lot of science.


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