19 Fascinating Facts You Likely Didn't Know
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1. Deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and "viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline."
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2. King Leonidas of Sparta was 60 years old at the Battle of Thermopylae.
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3. Humans' and Dogs' brains have evolved to understand each others' vocalizations to some degree, including dogs understanding human laughter.
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4. Axl Rose has a greater vocal range than Mariah Carey and sang lower notes than Barry White.
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5. In the Vietnamese version of Cinderella (Tam Cam), at the end, Cinderella dismembered her step sister, put the body into a jar of food and sent it to her step mother to eat, which she enjoyed until she found the skull at the bottom of the jar and died of shock.
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6. The Hudson Bay region of Canada has been found to have less gravity than the rest of the Earth.
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7. Ancient Greek doctors believed that a woman’s womb was a separate creature with a mind of its own. When a woman was celibate for an extended time, her uterus could dislodge and glide freely about her body causing suffocation, seizures and hysteria.
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8. Justin Bieber, a guy in his 30s, was banned from Facebook for sharing the same name with the famous celebrity.
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9. Employees who work at Jack Daniels get a free bottle of Jack Daniels with their paychecks on the first Friday of every month.
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10. After Mick Jagger rang up bandmate Charlie Watts during the night and asked "Where's my drummer?" Watts got out of bed, shaved, dressed in a suit, put on a tie and freshly shined shoes, then went to Jagger's room and punched him in the face.
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11. Clint Eastwood wrote the soundtrack to several of his own movies, including Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby.
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12. 3 quarters of men in Japan give all their money to their wives and receive an allowance.
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13. Carrying the average pocket knife that you can buy from most stores can get you thrown in prison in New York City.
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14. In England it was once legal to sell your wife.
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15. In 2007 a Scottish man was walked in on having sex with his bike in a private hostel room. He was placed on probation and forced to register as a sex offender for three years.
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16. After defeating the Persians, Alexander The Great started dressing like them and took two Persian wives.
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17. In 2001, the DEA attempted to ban glow sticks from parties by labeling them as "drug paraphernalia."
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18. There is a film called "Hari Puttar" made in India, which despite the name, is actually a remake of Home Alone, not Harry Potter.
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19. Marlon Wayans was originally cast as Robin in Batman Returns & Batman Forever and even paid for the role despite not actually appearing in either film.
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Deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and "viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline."
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