22 Fascinating Facts You Likely Didn't Know
Mizuka Ishiwatari
Published
08/08/2015
A portion of the cool knowledge you can use to impress your friends.
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Dogs have areas of their brain that process faces, just like humans. -
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Flexibility is not about muscle elasticity, but about training your nervous system that further muscle stretching is safe, so it won't fire pain signals to the brain. Any healthy human being is able to do a split under anesthesia. -
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The name Caesar was pronounced "kaisar" in Latin, just like the German word emperor, "Kaiser." -
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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries. -
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The Portuguese Man-of-War is not a single creature, but a colony of four smaller organisms that attach to each other and cannot survive independently. -
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Tamzin Merchant played Daenerys Targaryen in the pilot episode of Game of Thrones but the role was re-cast after filming with Emilia Clarke. -
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A hawk's eyesight is so good that it will fly to an altitude of 15,000 feet and scan the ground for small rodents. -
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It's possible for amateur radio operators to call the ISS and even get a response from an off duty astronaut. -
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Disability advocate Stella Palikarova, came up with the idea of an orgy for disabled people planned to coincide with the Toronto Parapan Am Games. -
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One of the reasons your lungs feel refreshed when walking through a pine forest is because of an anti-inflammatory compound called a- Pinene, found in conifers. It is used as a bronchodilator in the treatment of asthma and abundantly present in marijuana. -
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The concept of the "rap battle" has existed since the 5th century, where poets would engage in "flyting," a spoken word event where poets would insult one another in verse. -
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The title role in 'Babe' was played by 48 different pigs. -
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8 to 16 percent of humans are missing the Palmaris longus muscle which was once used for climbing. -
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In 2004, police discovered a secret underground cinema with professionally installed electricity, phone lines, full bar, classic movies and recent thrillers, and more in the catacombs under paris. Upon returning 3 days later, a note was found that read "Do not try to find us." -
15.
Whale poop used to be an ingredient in ice cream. -
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Prairie dogs have such a complex means of communication that they can embed descriptions of predators within their calls, and even have a specific call to describe a man with a gun. -
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The red-headed bride from Mad Max Fury Road married the guitar- flamethrower man in real life. -
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Crispin Glover, who played Michael J Fox's father in Back to the Future, is actually younger than him. -
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Spongebob Squarepants was originally going to be called Spongeboy and the show was originally going to be called Spongeboy Ahoy, but they had to change his name after it turned out that Spongeboy was the copyrighted name of a mop. -
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A study shows that watching porn is the most popular online activity. -
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Australian Wallabies have been found to make crop circles in Tasmania after ingesting opium poppies. -
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Dolph Lungdren has a degree in chemistry from Washington State University, a degree in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, then a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in Australia.
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