Elephants are terrified of Bees and actually have a special, distinct vocalization for “Run away the Bees are angry”
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Chocolate is associated with the release of serotonin, the hormone that makes you feel relaxed, calm, and happy.
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Drinking watermelon juice before a workout helps reduce muscle soreness.
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Putting sugar on a wound or cut will greatly reduce pain and speed up the healing process.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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