Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!)
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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Jason Earles played as a teenager in Hannah Montana, but he was actually born in 1977.
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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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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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