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Humans have been performing dentistry since 7000 B.C., which makes dentists one of the oldest professions.
The first-ever documented feature film was made in Australia in 1906.
The military has used silly string to detect tripwires in Iraq. Before entering a room, they can squirt it inside. If it hangs in the air, it may have revealed a wire.
Ancient Roman surgeons were trained to block out the screams of human pain.
By applying even pressure to an egg, it is nearly impossible to break the shell by squeezing it.
From 1953 to 1957, NBC’s Today Show had a chimpanzee co-host named J. Fred Muggs. It is estimated he brought in the network around $100 million.
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest. The last case of smallpox was in 1977, and the last of rinderpest was in 2001.
Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of the rose family.
A recently discovered deep-sea snail, the Scaly-Foot Gastropod, has a shell that is impressively developed. So much so that the U.S. military is trying to use its design to inspire defensive layers in military armor.
There is a geocache on the International Space Station placed in 2008. It has since been visited four times by other astronauts.
There are over 6,000 known species of grass
Canada eats more macaroni and cheese than any other nation in the world.
The total weight of all air on Earth is 11 quintillion pounds.
Scotland wanted to replicate the Parthenon bigger and cheaper in 1826. It was never completed and is now nicknamed “Scotland’s Disgrace”.
A French general gave John Quincy Adams a pet alligator. Adams kept it in one of the White House bathtubs and enjoyed showing it off.
“Time anxiety” occurs in a person when they are perpetually afraid of being late or of others being late.
Snakes can help predict earthquakes. They can sense a coming earthquake from 75 miles away, up to five days before it happens.
Ant queens can live for up to 30 years.
The hand and footprints in front of Los Angeles’s Chinese Theater tradition started accidentally when silent film actress, Norma Talmadge stepped on wet cement.
In 2014, Princeton researchers determined that Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2017.
An animal’s yawn based on how large their brain is. The bigger the brain, the longer they will yawn.
Orlando Bloom has swinophobia, which is a fear of pigs!
In Switzerland, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig. This is because guinea pigs are social animals, and they are considered victims of abuse if they are alone
Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddha’s.
There are more Lego mini-figures than there are people on Earth.
The logo on the Red Bull cans are not cattle, but a type of bovine called a “gaur.”
Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors performing laparoscopic surgery.
When cellophane was invented in 1908, it was originally intended to be used to protect tablecloths from wine spills.
In Bruges, Belgium, there is an underground pipeline that runs 2 miles to transfer beer from a brewery to the bottling plant.
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