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During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
The idea that "Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day" came from a company trying to sell more cereal during its 1944 marketing campaign.
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Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
Watermelon Steaks are suggested by many cookbooks as a meat substitute for vegetarians.
Alaska is geographically big enough to fit 19 U.S. states within its borders.
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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Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”
A white American became a Japanese citizen, and successfully sued a business that refused entry to non-Japanese for racial discrimination in 2001, winning US$25,000 in damages.
The town of "Sexmoan", in the Philippines, changed its name in 1991 to "Sasmuan" because its sexual connotation.
In 2015, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased for the first time since 1993.
Cincinnati is named after Cincinnatus, a ruler of the Roman Empire who saved Rome from crisis and then retired to his farm rather than rule.
From July to September 2001, heavy downpours of red-coloured rain fell sporadically on the state of Kerala, India.
Parrots can die of arrhythmia, heart attack or stroke.
Typhus killed 90% of Napoleon's soldiers on Russia. Fleas and lice were sufficient to spread the disease and kill more than 500,000 men.
Jesus' name translated from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua'. We get the name 'Jesus' by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English.
In 2003, two men stole an empty Boeing 727 from the Luanda International Airport and flew it into the sunset. They have never been found.
A Swedish woman "married" the Berlin Wall in front of a few guests in 1979. She was devastated when most of it was torn down in 1989.
A company called LifeGem creates diamonds from the ashes of your loved one.
Underwater hockey was invented in the 1950s in Britain and is played with snorkelling gear, a stick, and a puck weighing over one kilogram.
With 190 billionaires and more than two million millionaires, China tags just behind the U.S. in number of high-net-worth individuals.
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Whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose.