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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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Australian Graham Barker has been collecting his own belly button fluff every day since 1984 - keeping it in storage jars.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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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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There is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone - and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.
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