Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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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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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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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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Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.
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You can't tickle yourself.
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In November 2013, a woman in Florida named Linda Ducharme married a ferris wheel.
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