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I'd be more concerned with that eye like blob in the JFK photo. The aliens did it!!!
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The original Nintendo came with a Robot.
In America (1985 release) and UK (1986 release) it might have but the original NES was released in Japan dating back to 1983 and R.O.B the Robot wasn't made until 1985 if mem serves me well. |
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Harvard University library has four books bound in human skin.
It has been proven Calcium is not as good for your bones as Vitamin K.Contrary to popular belief,milk is not the best thing for your bones;avocado,peaches and bananas are much better. Drug-sniffing dogs are wrong more than 50% of the time. |
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Sunandha Kumariratana,the Queen of Thailand,drowned while her subjects watched because they were forbidden to touch her.
In 1907 Joseph Stalin said at the funeral of his first wife,"The creature softened my heart of stone.She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." Kepler space telescope data reveals that there are billions of earth-like planets near earth. |
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bigmo 02 Apr 13 07:46
Kepler space telescope data reveals that there are billions of earth-like planets near earth. Not that near obviously  |
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Prob not pumphol.
 There is a "Flying Squid" that has "been observed to cover distances as long as 50 m above the surface of the water uniquely utilizing jet-propelled aerial locomotion. Slave ants get revenge by killing their captors'babies. At a top speed the Bugatti Veyron will empty it's 26 gallon tank in 12 minutes. |
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"Slave ants get revenge by killing their captors'babies."
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Bilinguals can be dyslexic in one language but not the other.
In order for Coca-Cola to continue to exist in it's current form,the company has a special arrangement with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)to allow them to import dried coca leaves from Peru (and to a lesser degree,from Bolivia) in huge quantities. Ben & Jerry's (Ice cream)has a graveyard where all of it's discontinued flavors are buried. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using artificial leaves that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
Bill Gates intends to leave less than $10M for each of his three children "so they can make their own way" and the Gates family mostly drives a minivan when all are going somewhere together. India celebrates Children's day on November 14th,9 months after Valentines Day. |
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In Japan,women give chocolates on Valentine's day.Men are supposed to return the favor a month later on White Day,March 14.
A recent study reveals that dogs are much more likely to steal food in the dark when humans cannot notice them,indicating they understand a human's perspective. In addition to love,St. Valentine is the patron saint of plague. |
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Half of all millionaires are self employed or own a business.Around 80% of millionaires are college graduates.Only 18% of millionaires have Master's degrees.Eight percent have law degrees,6% have medical degrees,and 6% have PhDs.
Rowan Atkinson once saved a plane from crashing,saving his wife and his two children after the pilot passed out. Jellyfish kill more people than sharks do each year. |
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The planet Venus rotates on it's axis slower than it takes to orbit the Sun, thus a year lasts longer than a day. Also it rotates in the opposite direction to all other planets.
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sorry a day lasts longer than a year on Venus.
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At least once a day your immune system destroys a cell that would have become cancer if it lived.
A black Nigerian couple gave birth to a "miracle" blond white baby. The Mythbusters once created a blast so loud,it shattered some of the windows in a nearby town.This all happened in Yolo County. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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The US national anthem melody was composed by a British gentleman's club and the song was about drinking and sex.
The Mars Corporation has revenues of $30 billion/yr,remains family owned,and is the 3rd largest private company in the U.S. There's a flower that smells like chocolate.It's called Cosmos Atrosanguineus. |
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Each one of us has stripes on our body called Blaschko's lines.These are visible only under ultraviolet light.
Faking confidence can positively change your brain chemistry and your life. There is a cruise ship that runs between Stockholm and Helsinki with the primary purpose of purchasing and consuming cheap alcohol. |
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There is a mushroom that grows in the wild that tastes nearly identical to chicken/fried chicken.
Hundreds of years ago most people would go to bed early,wake up for about half an hour in the middle of the night and do various things,and then go back to bed for a "second sleep." The word "sc*mbag" was originally used to refer to used condom. |
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In the entire state of Ohio in 1895,there were only two cars on the road,and the drivers of these two cars crashed into each other.
There exists a practice called Flashblooding,where drug addicts inject themselves with other addicts blood to attempt to keep a high going. Thomas Jefferson hated banks and believed they were more dangerous than armies. |
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There is a species of rhino that is so endangered,that it has it's own 24 hour armed guards to protect it from poachers.
If the Jumping Ant queen dies,the workers will struggle for dominance and one will emerge as the new queen.It will swell in size,start laying eggs,and live up to 10 times longer than it would have as a worker. There is a German whiskey company that,prior to bottling,pour their whisky over a Playboy model's naked breeasts.  |
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Yellow armpit stains on clothing aren't caused by sweat alone,but by sweat mixed with the very product used to prevent it,antiperspirant.
Residents of Churchill,Canada leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bears on Main Street. The world's most powerful drug lord,El Chapo Guzman,occasionally walks into restaurants,asks other patrons not to be alarmed,eats his meal and then pays everyone's table when he leaves. |
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A Swedish man survived for 2 months inside a snowed-in car without food by "hibernating like a bear does."
A whales throat can only fit roughly the dimensions of a beach ball,whereas it's mouth can store up to 90 metric tons of food and water. Writing down your worries just before taking an exam can boost your test score,study shows. |
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The inventors of Mountain Dew originally made it to be mixed with whisky.
There is a movie about a murderous car tyre named Robert,and the entire movie is the tyre rolling around,killing people and blowing things up. Falling in love produces the same high as taking cocaine. |
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I am the reigning Grand National placepot champion
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If you have a pizza with radius z and thickness a,it's volume is Pi(z*z)a.
Psychologically humans are not capable of being "just friends"with members of the opposite sex. The inventors of Mountain Dew originally made it to be mixed with whiskey. |
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There is a Mickey Mouse comic strip from 1930 in which Minnie leaves him for another mouse.In response Micky then attempts suicide in several different ways.
"Gold pills" are being sold for $425 each that will turn your poop into glittering gold. Social psychologists have found that the more a city's radio station plays country music,the higher the suicide rate. |
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There's a "rain room" in London that makes rain fall everywhere in the room except the spot you are standing.
Scientists suggest that our universe may be inside a larger universe. There are 923 words in the English language that break the "i before e" rule.Only 44 words actually follow that rule. |
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Cats have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species.
Two independent surveys found that over 60% of self-identifying vegetarians admitted to eating meat in the last 24 hours. Singapore bought billions of cubic feet of sand fron Cambodia because Cambodia needs money and Singapore needs land. |
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L.Ron Hubbard awarded himself his own Ph.D as he himself owned the "university "from which he "graduated".
An "easy to learn" language called Esperanto was created in the hopes that it'd bring nations together.There are about 20,000 fluent speakers ranging from Europe to Asia. The women of the native Ainu people of Japan would tattoo giant lips/moustaches onto their faces. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Jackie Chan now officially holds the Guinness World Record for the most credits in one movie and the most stunts by a living actor.
Mark Wahlberg has a restaurant called "Wahlburgers". The band Creed once put on such a bad show that a $2,000,000 class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of all fans in attendance. |
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A study suggests watching Fox News makes you stupid.
Dr Dre didn't know Eminem was white until they met. Caffeine makes you more open-minded to viewpoints that contradict your own. |
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It is polite in Japan to slurp your noodles as you eat them because "how could you possibly get the full flavor if you don't slurp!?"
Vicks inhalers will cause you to test positive for Meth on drug tests. New Google employees are called "nooglers" and are given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday. |
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You absorb roughly half the protein from an egg if you eat it raw vs cooking it.
The Walking Dead has a 2.8 million dollar budget.Per episode. There was a man who survived a train derailment,a door coming off an airplane,a bus crash,a car fire,and two car accidents and later won a million dollar lottery. |
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An Orgasm a Day Keeps the Doctor Away.Study suggests it can add up to 8 years to your life.
There is an area in Canada with less gravity than the rest of the Earth. The most successful interrogator of WWII preferred friendliness to torture.He would take prisoners to the zoo and even arranged for one prisoner to enjoy a flight in a German fighter plane. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Romantic love lasts a year.After that "attachment love" sets in.
Regular daydreamers often find successful creative ideas and solutions to complex problems and about 5% of people daydream about sex at any point in time. Horse-sized ducks lived in Australia 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. |
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Jews arrived in India 2500 years ago and unlike many parts of the world,Jews have historically lived in India without any instances of antisemitism from the local majority populace.
Polygraph tests are only 61% accurate,yet they can still be used as evidence in court in many places. Lamniformes,the mackerel sharks (Great Whites,Makos and many more) do not require sleep.Ever. |
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The Japanese enslaved as many as 410,000 "comfort women" from Korea,China,and Southeast Asia to serve as prostitutes and raise the spirits of the Japanese soldiers.Approximately three quarters of them died and most survivors left infertile.
Abe Lincoln is enshrined in the Wrestling Hall of Fame,having lost only once in approximately 300 matches. There is a clock that runs away and hides if you don't get out of bed on time. |
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Scientists are working on temporary tattoos that could make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible.This could soon help people fly drones/control missiles with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech.
If his father hadn't changed his name in 1887,Hitler's name would have been "Adolf Schicklgruber". According to the iTunes User agreement,once a user accepts it,Apple can use "Geo tracking",it means that,once you agree,Apple is able to see your phone's precise location. |
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Until the 1800s,Turkish women suspected of cheating were tied in a sack with cats and thrown into the ocean.
Pope Stephen VI put his dead predecessor Pope Formosus on trial,dressed in Papal gowns and found him guilty of disloyalty and of grasping for ecclesial power.His punishment was 3 broken fingers and being thrown in the Tiber. The creator of the Girl Scouts became deaf when a grain of rice thrown at her wedding became lodged in her one good ear. |
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The dashed lines on highways are 10 feet long,and the spaces are 30 feet long.
A massive clock,hundreds of feet tall,is currently being constructed inside a mountain in East Texas.It's designed to withstand the test of time and expected to tick uninterrupted for over 10,000 years. The word "wh*re" stems from an old English word for desire. |