‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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The reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.
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In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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