Senegalese women spend an average of 17.5 hours a week just collecting water.
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Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
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The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
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Muhammad is the most common name in the world.
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You forget 90% of your dreams.
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According to CNN national security correspondent David Ensore, as of 2002 bin Laden had married four women and fathered roughly 25 or 26 children.
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In Korea, a child’s first birthday is the most important. In one part of the celebration, several items are placed on a table. The one that the baby picks up first is said to predict their future.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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