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Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

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John Lennon`s first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

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The Earth experiences 50,000 Earth quakes per year and is hit by Lightning 100 times a second.

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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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IBM’s motto is “Think”. Apple later made their motto “Think different”.

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An elderly woman was saved by her 12-pound Yorkshire Terrier, who fought off an 80- pound Akita, and survived with only 9 stitches.

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An eighteenth-century German named Matthew Birchinger, known as "the little man of Nuremberg," played four musical instruments including the bagpipes, was an expert calligrapher, and was the most famous stage magician of his day. He performed tricks with the cup and balls that have never been explained. Yet Birchinger had no hands, legs, or thighs, and was less than 29 inches tall.

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The area was settled by the Dutch in the 17th century as Pavonia and later established as Bergen, the first permanent settlement, local civil government and oldest municipality in what became the state of New Jersey.

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Up to the end of the 17th century, most of the world's coffee was imported from Yemen.

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, the character first appeared in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 (uncirculated).

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An American urologist bought Napoleon’s penis for $40,000.

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Icelanders consume more Coca-Cola per Capita than any other nation.

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The word acheropite comes from the Greek ἀχειροποίητος, meaning "not created by human hands", and the term was first applied to the Turin Shroud and the Veil of Veronica.

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God is not mentioned once in the book of Esther.

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They have had the largest influence on the science and culture of hallucinogens, and include mescaline, LSD, psilocybin, and DMT.

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Ali's unusual gastric abilities led to rumors that the Rockefeller Institute had offered a large sum of money to obtain his stomach post-mortem.

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Perky-eared dogs hear sounds better than floppy-eared dogs.

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There are more than 800 species of bird and more than 100,000 known species of insect.

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It consists partly of folk traditions developed in Cornwall and partly of traditions developed by Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium, often shared with those of the Breton and Welsh peoples.

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It was one of the first global empires and one of the world's major economic, political and military powers in the 15th and 16th centuries, with territories that became part of numerous countries.

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Amulets to protect against it have been found dating to around 5,000 years ago.

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The koinophilia hypothesis proposes that a sexually reproducing animal would therefore be expected to avoid individuals with rare or unusual features, and to prefer to mate with individuals displaying a predominance of common or average features.

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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day

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As an adult, it can grow up to 20 centimetres (8 in) long (top of the mantle to the tip of the arms) and on average weighs 26 grams (0.

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It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

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The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

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The class contains two, only distantly related, extant subclasses: Coleoidea, which includes octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish; and Nautiloidea, represented by Nautilus and Allonautilus.

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Using dimensionality reduction techniques, psychologists showed that most (though not all) of the variance in human personality can be explained using only these five factors.

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Anselm, who formulated the first ontological argument; Thomas Aquinas, who presented his own version of the cosmological argument (the first way); René Descartes, who said that the existence of a benevolent God is logically necessary for the evidence of the senses to be meaningful.

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Theory of mind was first conceptualized by researchers evaluating the presence of theory of mind in animals.

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They can be difficult to cleanly classify, however, as many are common across multiple such forms and can intersect under various categories, such as figurative (non-literal) devices.

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In the first case, the "regression" effect is statistically likely to occur, but in the second case, it may occur less strongly or not at all.

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Historically, disabilities have only been recognized based on a narrow set of criteria—however, disabilities are not binary and can present uniquely depending on the individual.

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Primary colors are colorants or colored lights that can be mixed in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors.

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Telepathy (from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) 'distant' and πάθος/-πάθεια (páthos/-pátheia) 'feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience') is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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They argued that passion and intuition were crucial to understanding the world, and that beauty is more than merely an affair of form, but rather something that evokes a strong emotional response.

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The concept of race is foundational to racism, the belief that humans can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another.

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However, they rarely meddle in human affairs, preferring instead to live among their own in a societal arrangement similar to that of the Arabian tribes.

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There is no consensus on what exactly needs to be studied, or whether consciousness can be considered a scientific concept.

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Schopenhauer was among the first philosophers in the Western tradition to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance.

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Most lipstick contains fish scales!

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The average talker sprays about 300 microscopic saliva droplets per minute, about 2.5 droplets per word.

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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis..

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Walt Disney holds the world record for the most Academy Awards won by one person, he has won twenty statuettes, and twelve other plaques and certificates

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The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

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“Lassie” was played by a group of male dogs; the main one was named Pal.

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Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.

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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women

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Three of the 12 dogs on the Titanic survived.

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The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

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You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

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The oldest dog on record was a Australian Cattle Dog named Bluey, who lived to be 29 years and 5 months old.

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The Akita is one of the most challenging dogs to own. Some insurance companies have even characterized it as the #1 "bad dog" and may even raise an Akita owner’s homeowner insurance costs.

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More than a thousand species have been identified, within almost 200 genera.

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The name comes from Tiki, the Māori name for the first human, often represented in the form of hei-tiki, a pendant and important taonga.

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Lead is malleable and soft, meaning it can be shaped into different shapes and lead has a relatively low melting point.

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It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.

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During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.

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Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

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Seeing spots? Or not... Dalmatian puppies are pure white when they are born and develop their spots as they grow older.

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In the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon.

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A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.

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The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

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There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

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Depending on the culture and circumstances, a kiss can express a wide range of emotions, such as love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, sexual arousal, affection, respect, a wish for peace or good luck, as well as numerous other meanings.

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Arguments for pessimism often concern the relation between pleasure and suffering; whether later goods can compensate for earlier or simultaneous harms; life as striving, frustration, boredom, and decay; asymmetries between the harms and benefits of coming into existence; the absence of cosmic meaning; and the suffering of non-human animals, including wild animal suffering.

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A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a “palindrome”.

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Genesis 24:65 records the veil as a feminine emblem of modesty.

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The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

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Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. “You’ve got Mail!”).

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"Half-turn" ambigrams undergo a point reflection (180-degree rotational symmetry) and can be read upside down (for example, the word "swims"), while mirror ambigrams have axial symmetry and can be read through a reflective surface like a mirror.

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A Great Dane named "Just Nuisance" is the only dog to have officially enlisted in the Royal Navy.

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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

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The human tongue tastes bitter things with the taste buds toward the back. Salty and pungent flavors are tasted in the middle of the tongue, sweet flavors at the tip!

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At first, Prester John was thought to reside in India.

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Dodona (; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, romanized: Dōdṓnā, Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, Dōdṓnē) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus.

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The letter K, although relatively older, is also rarely used and appears only in proper names and international neologisms such as kilogram, broker, karate.

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They can be revealed to the prophet in various ways depending on the religion and the story, such as visions, or direct interaction with divine beings in physical form.

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The First Apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life and provides various arguments to convince the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius to abandon persecution of the Church.

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What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

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