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Microwave ovens were invented by accident. Percy Spencer was standing in front of an active radar set when he noticed the candy bar he had in his pocket had melted.

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The Mediterranean Sea dried up
about 5 million years ago,

after it was sealed off
from the Atlantic Ocean.

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The sun's surface is blisteringly hot at 10,340℉. while its atmosphere is another 300 times hotter.

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In 1983, the average life expectancy for a person with Down Syndrome was only 25 years old. It is now 60 years old.

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Astronomers estimate that the observable universe has more than 100 billion galaxies.

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When astronauts spend long periods of time at zero gravity in space, their hearts become more spherical and lose muscle mass.

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Tupac's last known words were "fuck you" spoken to police officers trying to gather information on his shooter.

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The US Postal Service handles 47% of the entire world's mail.

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A series of studies found that couples who were more grateful toward each other were more likely to still be together 9 months later.

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Saying "Thank you" makes people see you as a warmer person, a study found.

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Research found that Dutch men, at 182.5 centimeters (about 6 feet), and Latvian women, at 170 centimeters (5 feet 7 inches), are the tallest in the world.

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Interrogative self-talk --e.g. Will I go for a run today?-- is more motivating than declaring something to be true, a study found.

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Wolves became tamer companions and evolved into dogs about 27,000 years ago.

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In Japan, the likelihood of being killed by a gun is about the same as an American's chance of being killed by lightning.

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According to Google Trends, Texas searches for "plus-size lingerie" more frequently than any other U.S. state around Valentine's Day.

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Contrary to popular belief, Kansas is not the flattest state in the U.S. Florida is.

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It is possible to determine a person's gender from a fingerprint. Women secrete twice as many amino acids as men and in a distinct distribution, studies say.

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When dropped from the same height, a hardened steel ball will actually bounce higher than a rubber ball of the same size.

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The first animals in space were fruit flies, launched in a rocket by the US in 1947. They were still living when recovered.

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Monkeys can be Machiavellian.

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The Earth's atmosphere

is made up of

roughly

21% of oxygen.

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A solar plane made history in 2016 after completing a round-the-world trip using no fossil fuel.

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New York City, at 8.4 million (2013) has a higher population than 39 out of the 50 U.S. States.

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Psychopaths tend to have a poor sense of smell, a study found.

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From 2001 to 2009, Donald Trump was a registered Democrat.

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Over a quarter of unmarried Japanese males aged 30-40 are virgins.

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Music, painting, poetry, literature and architecture, all used to be part of the modern Olympic Games from 1912 to 1948.

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270 scientists re-ran 100 studies published in the top psychology journals in 2008. Only half the studies could be replicated successfully.

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In 2016, a man blaming a game company for "ruining his life" with game addiction, crashed a car into their head office in South Korea.

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Neither

of George W. Bush's

daughters

are Republican.

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