30 Fascinating Facts To Expand Your Horizons
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The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.
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The figure in Munch's 'The Scream' is not screaming but is, in fact, reacting to hearing the scream.
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The technology for the fax machine was invented in 1843. The feudal era in Japan ended in 1868 abolishing the samurai class. Abraham Lincoln lived until 1865. All of this combined lead to a 22 year period in which Lincoln could have received a fax from a samurai.
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Corgi is a translation of the welsh for dwarf dog. Cor gi. In the Mabinogion, the welsh book of myths and legends, corgis were the battle steeds of fairies
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Eugene Aldrin, the father of the famous moon landing astronaut Buzz Aldrin, not only witnessed the Wright brothers’ first flight but also went to see his son land on the moon in his lifespan. We’ve been quick!
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If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.
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Bob Ross was a Drill Instructor. When he stopped working as that, he promised he would not raise his voice at someone again. That's why he was so soft spoken.
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There was a phantom poop on an Apollo mission. A poop, floating around, that none of the astronauts said was theirs.
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Some birth control pills can cause vitamin B deficiency. Vitamin B is used to make seratonin. I’ve know a few people that got super depressed after starting birth control and taking B complex made a huge difference *consult your doctor
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Andrew Jackson had a interesting assassination attemp. The person who was going to kill him pointed his gun and it jammed. Jackson then beat him up wjth his cane. The guy got back and pulled out the second gun which also managed to jam. This is a 1 in 125,000 chance.
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Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones! Obviously dogs can do it but to avoid blowing up poor unsuspecting doggos, they figured out that bees could do the same thing and swarm the area without setting the mine off to alert people to its presence
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When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.
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When the Rubix Cube was first released a mathematician said it would take the average person 30 years, working 8 hours a day, to solve a cube saying it was impossible for someone without a master's in mathematics to solve it in under a month.
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Gases and particles in Earth's atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. Now you know why the sky is blue.
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NASA discovered a planet outside of the milky way a few days ago for the first time in human history
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German chocolate cake was invented by an English-American baker named Samuel German and has nothing to do with the country of Germany.
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Komodo dragons are the largest animals in the world capable of reproducing asexually Edit: y’all I just found this on google when I was curious one day don’t ask me how it works I’m failing biology
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Due to evolution, humans share genes with all living organisms. For example, 60% of your DNA is the same as a strawberry.
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There’s a vast difference between a million and a billion. A simple way to visualize it: a million seconds is over 11 days. A billion seconds is just under 32 years.
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If you stare at your own reflection in dim lighting for a few minutes, your face will begin to distort and you will essentially begin to hallucinate. Don’t do it. It’s a trap.
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