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The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona The Spanish city thought the design was too ugly, so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead, as a temporary landmark during its…
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Before toilet paper was invented, Americans used to use corn cobs Alternatively, they’d use periodicals like the Farmers Almanac, which was designed with a hole so it could hang in outhouses.…
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In the Philippines, McDonald’s serves spaghetti Some of these weird facts are very unexpected. The pasta comes with a beef tomato sauce and a piece of “McDo” fried chicken.
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Supermarket apples can be a year old These weird facts might have you changing the way you eat. Those fresh apples aren’t all that fresh, per say. They’re usually picked between…
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Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels. So he…
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Honey never expires. Honey has a perfect chemical composition that makes it never spoil. Organisms can't live inside it, meaning there's nothing that can spoil in the first place. 5,000-year-old…
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Cashews grow on the bottom of a fruit called a cashew apple. The nuts are removed individually and the fruit is often sold in juiced form. It's not the only…
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Cleopatra lived closer to the time Pizza Hut was founded than to when the Egyptian pyramids were built. Here's yet another example of how our idea of history and time…
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The US Air Force lost a nuclear bomb somewhere off the coast of Georgia and it’s still missing. No one knows where it is! An Air Force pilot dropped the…
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Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Speaking of how old colleges are: As symbiosa said on Reddit, it's not always easy to gauge historical timelines across different parts of…
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A bear that fought with Poland in World War II was promoted to the rank of a corporal. Wojtek the Soldier Bear was released from the prison camps of Siberia only…
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Nintendo was founded in 1889. No, that's not a typo. The beloved Japanese gaming company is about 100 years older than you probably thought. Decades before Pokémon and Mario, Nintendo started…
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One teaspoon of a neutron star is equal to the weight of about 900 Pyramids of Giza. Neutron stars are incredibly dense. They're very small — about 12.5 miles in diameter…
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There's a species of shark that can live for around 500 years. The Greenland Shark has the longest lifespan of all known vertebrates, living an average of 272 years, and some…
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Calculations suggest that 136 billion sheets of A4 paper would be needed to print out the entire world wide web. If the printouts were piled up, the stack would be…
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The most forceful rollercoaster in the world is “Tower of Terror” at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, South Africa. At the bottom of the ride’s huge drop, people experience a…
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The packaging problems of round fruit can be solved by making them square. In Korea, some apples are grown in plastic moulds so they take on a square shape.
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It would take 19 minutes to fall from the North Pole to Earth’s core.
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A hippo’s jaw opens wide enough to fit a sports car inside.
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All the electricity powering the internet weighs the same as an apricot.
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In 1922, a team of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital, where numerous children with diabetes - often upwards of 50 - were housed in wards. Most of these…
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Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci in Florence - 1504 #monalisa #leonardodavinci #photooftheday
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In 1996, an unidentified 8-year-old boy slipped away from his mother, climbed over a barrier, and fell into the Gorilla Enclosure. Due to the 20 ft fall, the boy broke…
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Two boys show each other different skills, Kenya, 1962. 9-year-old Kevin from New York had come to Kenya to join his stepfather as guest of a Maasai tribe, where he and…
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During the late 1960s, Coca-Cola orchestrated a massive birdseed display in St. Mark's Square, arranging the seeds to create its iconic logo. Within moments, hundreds of pigeons flocked to the…
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Stalin used a large group of photo retouchers to cut his enemies out of supposedly documentary photographs. This historic picture showed young socialists in 1897 before some of them rose to…
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Anne Frank's father, Otto, visits the attic where they hid from the Germans in World War II. He stands alone as he is the only member of his family to…
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What medieval castle toilets looked like The first modern flushable toilet was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harrington, who installed one for his godmother, Elizabeth I. Occasionally, some brave knights would…
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In 1922, a team of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital, where numerous children with diabetes - often upwards of 50 - were housed in wards. Most of these…
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Giant Tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets so that the frog can protect the spider's eggs from insects and the spider can protect the frog from predators. #photooftheday #spider #frog
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