If Earth's life was compressed into 1 year, then humans would have been around for only 2 seconds.
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Men are more attracted to women whose bone structure is similar to their own mothers. It's called "sexual imprinting".
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The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Teddy bears were named after U.S. President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The iconic roar made by Godzilla was produced by rubbing a leather glove across the strings of a double bass.
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