Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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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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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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Redheads require up to 20% more anesthesia to be knocked out.
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