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23 Facts That People Just Learned

You can learn something new every day

By Nathan Johnson

Published 1 year ago in Wow

You can learn something new every day

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In 2022, Crypto.com accidentally refunded a customer over $10 Million—they accidentally entered the account number as the refund amount. It took 7 months for them to notice. The recipient was arrested and spent over 200 days in custody.

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In 2020, five Lithuanian soldiers went missing during a graduation exam. Thinking the exercise was still ongoing, they successfully evaded all attempts to find them. A military spokesman said their performance was "exemplary."

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Spartan law forbade the marriage of a girl until she was in her late teens or early 20s. The reasons were to ensure the birth of healthy children; and to spare women the risks and lifelong health damage associated with adolescent pregnancy.

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Disney cofounder Roy Disney spent time with his grandchildren every week at Disneyland. Roy greeted each employee by name and picked up garbage he saw on the ground to teach them "Nobody is too good to pick up trash”.

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Egyptian builders such as those of the pyramids were usually not slaves, and frequently took sick days from work. Popular excuses included “stung by scorpion”, “bleeding wife”, “trouble with eye”, and even “brewing beer”.

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John Krasinski fought for a deaf actress Millicent Simmonds to be cast in 'A Quiet Place'; she taught everyone sign language on set.

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Scientists have been communicating with apes via sign language since the 1960s; apes have never asked one question.

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Obelisk, a Queen's Guard horse, who used to lure pigeons to him by dropping oats from his mouth. When they came close, he would stomp them to death. He was eventually taken for additional 'psychological training'.

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Menstruation is actually very rare in mammals. Other than humans, only 9 primate species, 4 bat species, the elephant shrew, and one species of mouse menstruate. All other female mammals reabsorb their uterine lining, rather than shed it.

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Multiple studies have found that an extra inch of height can be worth an extra $1,000 a year in wages both for men and women.

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Castrated men do not go bald. Balding is caused by sex hormones which castrated men do not produce.

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Most people can see their own white blood cells moving through their retinas.

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The common plastic garden chair is called a "Monobloc" chair, and was once banned in Switzerland for polluting the cityscape.

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Humans are the "most sensitive" to the castor oil seeds: it takes 1 to [take out] a full grown human, 11 to [take out] a dog, and a massive dose of 80 to [take out] a duck. The seeds contain ricin which is roughly 6000 times more poisonous than cyanide.

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A man died in the lighthouse he built. Henry Winstanley was so confident in the lighthouse's design that he wished to be inside during "the greatest storm there ever was". The lighthouse was completely destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703, killing Winstanley.

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Cars must have at least three-quarters of a tank in order to leave Singapore, in order to stop them from buying cheaper gas in Malaysia and circumventing Singapore's gas tax.

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Only three objects have ever been found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza- pieces of wood, a ball made of diorite, and a copper hook. They were found in 1872 in a shaft leading from the Queen's Chamber.

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Amelia Earhart had a copilot when she disappeared, his name was Fred Noonan.

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EA makes $420 million/year off of the Sims 4.

20
Madonna turned down a role in The Matrix, one of the biggest regrets of her career.

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Apple designs and tests its product boxes so that they open at just the right speed.

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Rachel McAdams who plays 17 year old Regina George was 25 years old at the time. Her mother on film Amy Poehler was was only 8 years older at 33.

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If you carve something into a tree, it'll still be at the same height 50 years later.

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