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The way you cut a vegetable can change the way it tastes. (Not verified)
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HYPE REMINDER!
On average, most people have fewer friends than their friends have. This is known as the ‘friendship paradox'.
If you had an 'insect of the month' calendar, you wouldn't have to reuse a species for 80,000 years.
California generates so much solar power that at times the state will pay Arizona to take it.
In 2003, archaeologists in Venezuela discovered fossilized remains of guinea pig the size of a cow.
In Thailand, it is illegal to possess more than 120 playing cards. (unverified)
Rutka Laskier, a Jewish girl from Poland who died in Auschwitz at the age of 14, wrote a diary describing her experiences under Nazi occupation. Her diary was published in 2006 and she has become known as the "Polish Anne Frank."
In Cuzco cathedral in Peru, there's a painting of the Last Supper in which Jesus and the disciples are about to eat a roast guinea pig.
Over 200 people have claimed to descend from the Romanovs, the family of the last Tsar of Russia. However, irrefutable DNA evidence shows that all children perished with their parents at the hands of Bolsheviks.
6 million pounds of syrup, worth US$18 million, were stolen in 2013 from the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve in Canada.
why would you steal so much syrup?
Actor Nicolas Cage purchased his own tomb, a 9-foot-tall pyramid-shaped mausoleum in a famed New Orleans graveyard, with an inscription in Latin: "Everything From One."
Carmenelectra shechisme, pronounced “Carmen Electra, she-kiss-me,” is an extinct fly species.
Every year, a 9 lb round of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled from the top of Cooper's Hill, in England, with competitors racing down after it. The first person over the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese.
The Persians, fully aware of the reverence that Egyptians paid to their felines, rounded up as many cats as they could find and set them loose on the battlefield.
All former U.S. presidents and their spouses have secret service protection for life. Their children also have it until their 16th birthday.
In 2013, a Michigan judge, whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom, held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction.
Washoe, the chimpanzee, was the first non-human to learn American Sign Language. She also passed on her knowledge to other chimpanzees.
Pope John Paul II created more saints than all his predecessors in the previous 500 years put together.
Speed bumps were installed to slow down pedestrians at a historic site in East China.
Albert Einstein famously said that "if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years to live."
Belgium produces an amazing 220,000 tons of chocolate per year. Brussels International Airport is one of the world's largest selling points of chocolate.
The symbols used by !$%@ing cartoonists to indicate swearing are called grawlixes.
“Beats" by Dre headphones, which can sell for as much as $450, only cost about $14 to produce.
It takes longer to say "www" than it does to say "World Wide Web" because of all the syllables.
Thomas Fantet de Lagny was a mathematician. On his deathbed, he was asked, “What is the square of 12?” His last words: “One hundred and forty-four.”
LONELY HYPE!
There are nearly 1,400 known asteroids capable of causing ‘major devastation' if they hit the Earth.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a French island just 25 km off the coast of Canada. 6000 French citizens live there.
When a border is disputed by two or more territories, Google Maps changes its borders in each country to reflect that country's beliefs.