Random Interesting Facts

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    50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
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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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    Yucatán Name
    Yucatán Name
    The Mexican state of Yucatán was named so after a misunderstanding when the Spaniards arrived and asked the locals what they called the place. The locals replied "Yucatan" which means "I don’t understand you" in their native tongue.
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    Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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    Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.
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    Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.
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    CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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    A bag of marijuana was the first thing ever bought and sold over the internet.
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