Romans used a plant called Silphium as contraception. They had so much sex that they drove it into extinction.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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The seahorse is the only fish to have a neck.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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The human sigh acts as a physiological reset button.
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