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Sharks have existed longer than trees.
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"Huh?" is understood in all languages
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Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.
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Plants have ways of communicating with each other. The scent of freshly cut grass is equivalent to a cry for help.
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Editor Bennett Cerf challenged Dr. Seuss to write a book using no more than 50 different words. The result? Green Eggs and Ham.
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Johnny Carson’s first three wives were named, in order, Joan, Joanne, and Joanna. (His first wife went by “Jody.”)
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In 1777, Frederick the Great issued an official statement urging his subjects to drink beer in the morning instead of coffee. Correct nigga ![]()
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty forbids any nation from trying to own the Moon.
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Sorry, Scotland: Persians invented bagpipes.
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Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic. Big deal. Buhari is a trained herdsman.
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A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
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Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln was wrestling champion of his county in Illinois. He fought in nearly 300 matches and lost only one. Okonkwo ![]()
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The modern popped collar originated as a way to keep tennis players’ necks from getting sunburnt.
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Fishes cough.
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The dot over your lowercase “i” is called a tittle.
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Opossums don't "play dead." When frightened, they become overexcited and pass out.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.
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The number 4 is the only number with the same number of letters as the meaning of its name.
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Baby porcupines are known as porcupettes.
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Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare side effect of brain trauma. Patients speak their native language in a foreign dialect. So all those girls forming have brain defects? ![]()
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Sea cucumbers eat with their feet.
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People didn’t always say “hello” when they answered the phone. When the first regular phone service was established in 1878, Alexander Graham Bell suggested answering the phone with “ahoy."
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A solar eclipse helped end a six-year war in 585 BCE. When the sky suddenly darkened during a battle between the Lydians and the Medes in modern Turkey, soldiers took it as a sign to cease fighting.
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Goosebumps are actually caused by a muscle. It is called the arrector pili muscle.
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THE CALCIUM IN OUR BONES AND THE IRON IN OUR BLOOD COME FROM ANCIENT EXPLOSIONS OF GIANT STARS.
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HEARING IS THE FASTEST HUMAN SENSE. A PERSON CAN RECOGNIZE A SOUND IN AS LITTLE AS 0.05 SECONDS.
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THE FINEST QUALITY EMERALDS ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN DIAMONDS.
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THE TV REMOTE IS THE DIRTIEST ITEM IN A TYPICAL HOUSEHOLD, HOSPITAL, OR HOTEL ROOM.
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OPAL HAS BEEN DISCOVERED ON MARS.
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DEPENDING ON THE SPEED OF THE WIND, SOME CLOUDS TRAVEL UP TO 100 MILES PER HOUR ACROSS THE SKY.
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