On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Your wounds heal faster if you lick them, you instinctively do this for that reason. Tears help, too.
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In 1999, a fisherman found a love letter in a bottle from a soldier in WWI. He returned said letter to the now deceased widows 86 year old daughter.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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People who have a strong friendship possess the ability to communicate with one another through facial expressions.
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