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“Schnapsidee” is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when you’re drunk.
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Forgiveness is the number one trait linked to happiness in humans.
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The police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used music from an ice-cream truck to calm down angry teen rioters. The music diffused a tense situation, but the officers were reprimanded for it.
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Ralph Lauren’s real name was Ralph Lifshitz.
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In the 1830s, the ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, wanted to disassemble the Giza Pyramids and use them as pre-cut building materials. Thankfully, the Quantity Surveyor for the project fudged the figures and made it look like it would cost too much to save them.
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Pantheism is the belief that God did not create the universe, but rather the universe is God.
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Cats can hear ultrasound.
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Anna Bagenhold fell through a frozen stream while she was skiing and was stuck for over an hour. She made a full recovery and became the person to survive the lowest body temperature ever recorded at 56.7 °F (13.7 °C), even though she was clinically dead.
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Aggressive sitting is a sport. It originated in Berlin no later than 2008. You can purchase a special stool for this sport for around 70 dollars.
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The whole Harry Potter series contains 199 chapters, 4,224 pages, and 1,090,739 words and has been made into 19 hours and 39 minutes of the film.
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Daniel Radcliffe identifies as Jewish, and his mother is Jewish too.
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The distance from your wrist to your elbow is the same length as your foot.
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A group of parrots is known as a pandemonium of parrots.
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On average, PewDiePie receives around 2 million YouTube views on each video after only 24 hours of uploading them.
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When Jay-Z was 12, he shot his older brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry. He later referenced it in a song titled “You Must Love Me.”
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In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was a symbolic declaration of love, and to catch it was to show acceptance of that love.
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The average computer user blinks seven times a minute, the normal rate is twenty times per minute.
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If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale.
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Worldwide, cucumber production was 57.5 million tons in 2010 alone, with 40.7 million tons of production and export happening in China.
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When tea started being sold in bags, originally, it was intended to be removed from the bags by customers, but they found it easier to brew the tea still in the bag.
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If the electors of the Holy Roman Emperor did not vote within 30 days, they were only allowed to eat bread and water and were forbidden to leave the city.
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A woman once tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. She jumped from the 86th floor but was blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind.
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The original Star-Spangled Banner was sewn on the floor of a brewery in Baltimore in 1813 by Mary Pickersgill and her daughter.
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Cucumber can actually cure bad breath. A slice pressed to the roof of your mouth for 30 seconds with your tongue allows the phytochemicals to kill the problematic bacteria.
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Wonder Woman has a black sister, Nubia. She was sculpted from black clay-like Diana was sculpted from white clay.
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Dartmouth’s unofficial mascot is a beer keg called “Keggy the Keg.” Created in 2003, it was initially controversial but is now part of the Dartmouth culture.
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27,000 trees are cut down every day to supply the world’s toilet paper.
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According to scientists, the weight of the average cumulus cloud is 1.1 million pounds.