Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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Mary Jane was killed by Spiderman's radioactive semen in the limited comic book series "Spider-Man: Reign".
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Redheads require up to 20% more anesthesia to be knocked out.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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