Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
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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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There are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why.
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If Antarctica's ice sheets melted, the worlds oceans would rise by 60 to 65 metres (200 - 210ft) - everywhere
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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On average, every dollar bill you touch has over 3,000 different types of bacteria.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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