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Even after extinction, the Dodo is still the national animal of Mauritius.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE -
Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton invented underwater spectacles so he could read in the bath.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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After a meal, a Burmese python's heart grows by 40%.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Drinking wine before a meal makes you eat 25% more.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A coal-fired power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The FBI started compiling a file on Sacha Baron Cohen while he was filming 'Borat' after receiving numerous complaints about a strange man travelling around the country in an ice cream truck.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1932, Thomas Earl, a zookeeper at the Cleveland Brookside Zoo, was fired from his job, then mauled by a brown bear and mistakenly shot by police.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An unborn baby can taste what its mother is eating and develop a preference for the foods that she eats.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ancient Egyptians used to wear hair extensions.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The U.S. could feed 800 million people with the grain used to feed the country's livestock.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Roman Emperor Tiberius banned kissing, believing it caused the spread of a fungal disease called mentagra (inflamed hair follicles).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Albert Einstein walked 3 miles a day while Darwin went for three 45-minute walks every day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The most prolific mathematician of the 20th Century, Paul Erdos, used amphetamine to fuel 20-hour number benders.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Celebrated inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla swore by toe exercises – every night, he'd repeatedly ‘squish' his toes, 100 times for each foot.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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After a waitress at a pizzeria helped a customer choose the numbers for a winning lottery ticket in 1984, he 'tipped' her $3,000,000, half of his prize money.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The London Bridge built in the 1830s was dismantled in 1967 and relocated to Arizona.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The South Pacific island of Vanuatu banned the imports of western junk food as a way to combat future health problems.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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1% to 3% of the world population are short sleepers, people who live happily on just a few hours of sleep per night.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Stealing someone else's idea without realizing you've done so is called "kleptomnesia."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An estimated 50-80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface and the oceans contain 99% of the living space on the planet.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Bela Lugosi and Igor Stravinsky were all born in the same year: 1882.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Ottoman Empire's Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after one of them slept with another man.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Afghanistan has been invaded by Greek, Arab, Mongol, Mughal, Persian, British, Sikh and Soviet forces. No invader has been able to control all of its regions at the same time.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Plato was originally called Aristocles.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Upon opening his crypt in 2017, Salvador Dalí's famous moustache remained in a perfect state after 28 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The word "Afghanistanism", which means focusing on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring local issues, was first used in 1948.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Charles Darwin was the first to put wheels on an office chair, creating the modern office chair.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The highest accuracy calculations at NASA use just 15 decimals of Pi.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The artist formerly known as Prince was obsessed with lavender and that's how you knew he was entering a room: you would smell the lavender.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
