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The Adak National Forest in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, is the smallest national forest in America, with only 33 trees.
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French queen Marie Antoinette had a fully functional peasant village built on the grounds of Versailles. She loved strolling the village in a simple shepherdess garb pretending to live a simple life milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants.
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A cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature.
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In 1969, a musician named Jim Sullivan recorded an album called " U.F.O.", which featured strange lyrics about leaving his family and being abducted by aliens. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, with the only piece of evidence being his abandoned car found on a desert road.
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Boris Yeltsin's faith in communism was shattered after a trip to a grocery store in a Houston suburb in 1989.
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Puerto Rico is the tip of an enormous ancient mountain that descends more than 30,000 feet to the floor of the Caribbean sea, taller than even Mount Everest.
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In 1946, a local chicken farmer offered 100 chicks for each homer the Nashua Dodgers hit. Newcomer Roy Campanella hit 14 in his first season and sent all 1,400 to his father who used them to start a thriving poultry farm. He also went on to become one of the first black major league players.
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If you watch lectures, speeches, interviews or presentations on YouTube, you can often increase the playback speed by .25 or .50 and still understand what the speaker is saying while saving a significant amount of time.
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If someone is mad at you, give them enough time to calm down before trying to talk with them. People often don’t think logically when they are upset so trying to solve a situation while they are still mad can make matters worse quickly.
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Never sign into any of your accounts by clicking a link in an email. Even if you’re fairly sure it’s a legitimate email. Instead, load up a new page and go to the website yourself to log in. Anything that you would be asked to do via email you will be able to find on the main site and it means that you don’t risk being caught out by a scam email.
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Make it a habit to delete your account from applications before uninstalling them from your phone. If you stopped using app or website make it a habit to delete your account from their platform before leaving, will let you avoid a lot of spam, security risks and privacy concerns.
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Before using your credit card or debit card in ANY machine, make it a HABIT to tug on the card reader with good force. You’ll reduce the chances of your card being skimmed…by a lot.
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When considering a financial advisor, ask if they are a fiduciary. Fiduciaries are required by law to act in YOUR best interest. This could potentially save you hundreds of thousands of dollars by retirement.
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You can recall sent emails in Gmail up to 30 seconds after you’ve sent them. Change the time from the default 5 seconds in Settings>Undo Send. The option to recall the email will be in the bottom left corner.
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After a bad break up, do 10 things that your ex would never do with you. You’ll feel better and realize how much of yourself was being held back.
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According to some 40-million-year-old bones that were found in Antarctica, penguins used to be over 6 feet tall and weighed more than 250 pounds.
. https://phys.org/news/2014-08-klekowskii-penguin-size-title-emperor.html |
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Almost all mammals take about 21 seconds to empty their bladders.
Scientists conducted in-depth studies of different mammals peeing and discovered that an animal’s mass, bladder pressure, and urethra size all work together in harmony with the gravitational pull and create the 21-second ‘law of urination.’ . https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24425-universal-law-of-urination-found-in-mammals/ |
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Bananas are curved because they grow against the pull of gravity. They start off hanging downwards, but as they get bigger, they start trying to grow upwards to get more sun and end up having a curved shape.
. http://www.dole.eu/dole-earth/farmtour/bananito/hotspot/banana-curved.html |
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An Israeli army unit specifically recruits teens with autism. "Unit 9900", a selective intelligence squad, where heightened perceptual skills are considered an asset.
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In 1996, after a rash of unexplained payphone thefts in Malaysia, authorities discovered that the fishermen were using them as bait.
Fishermen would cut off the handsets, connect them to high power batteries and lower them into the water. The electricity passing through the microphones produced a high-pitched sound that attracted fish into their nets. |
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One giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of asthma-causing chemicals as 50 million cars.
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Betfair forumites that post in excess of 5000 times a year are sad,deluded,lonely, full of their own self importance, have no money, friends and haven't had sex with another human this side of 2010...you know who you are. X
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Whether Marco actually travelled to China is unclear. No Chinese record mentions him. His accounts of the trip never mention the great wall, Chinese characters, chopsticks, or footbinding.
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The oldest perfume factory in the world was unearthed in Cyprus in 2004-05. It dated back to the bronze age, around four thousand years ago, and it covered an estimated surface area of over 4,000M2, indicating that their perfume manufacturing was on an indrustrial scale.
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There was a reverse underground railroad that kidnapped freed slaves and returned them to slavery in the south.
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Prince is the sole credit on his first album. He sang all the parts and played all the instruments, including acoustic and electric guitars. acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes piano, synth bass, various keyboard synths by Oberheim, Moog and arp, orchestra bells, drums, percussion and bass guitar.
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Coal and Petroleum like compounds have been found in space. The results suggest that complex organic compounds are not the sole of life but can be made naturally by stars.
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In Denmark, it is illegal to burn foreign flags, but not illegal to burn the Danish flag.
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In February 2014, snipers attacked a Californian power station, took out seventeen transformers after cutting phone lines. They disappeared one minute before the police arrived, never to be caught or identified.
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There is a Haitian martial art called fencing.
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In WWII, rationing laws prohibited the sale of freshly-baked bread because "the tastiness of just-baked bread is likely to encourage people to eat it immoderately". The bread had to be at least 24hrs old before it was sold.
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It took 23.5 tons of ancient, buried plants to produce 1 litre of petrol.
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Jupiter's moon Europa has more water than Earth's surface oceans. Its subsurface ocean plus ice layer could range from 80 to 170 kilometers in average depth.
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The Gingko Biloba species of tree is 270 million years old. It rarely suffers disease or insect attack and was one of the only living things to survive the Hiroshima nuclear bombing. The trees healed quickly and are still alive today.
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There is a bog in Florida that was an ancient burial pond and contains human remains that were buried 2000 years before the first pyramids. The skeletal remains are preserved so well that they have managed to collect soft brain tissue from the skulls.
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Richard Marsh is a rare survivor of locked-in syndrome, a condition where a patient can only move his or her eye muscles. During his coma, Richard watched his beg doctors not to take him off life support and witnessed his own rough handling by the nighttime staff.
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1960's counterculture singer Phil Ochs would go on paranoid drunken rants about the FBI watching him. After hanging himself in his sisters home, it was revealed the FBI had a 500-page file on him.
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It’s so hard to understand the words to The Kingsmen’s famous rendition of “Louie Louie” that kids used to make up their own versions of the lyrics and pass them around in notes.
There were so many suspicious parents reporting it for being obscene that the FBI began an investigation. They spent over 2.5 years playing the song backwards, forwards, and every which way they could think of, but they eventually gave up after determining the words were “indecipherable at any speed.” . https://vault.fbi.gov/louie-louie-the-song/louie-louie-the-song/view |
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Putting hydrogen peroxide on a cut does more harm than good. Though it does kill the bacteria, it also kills healthy cells - and that slows down the healing process.
. https://www.discoveryuk.com/#curiosity-301 |