Pringles are technically not potato chips but a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and some potato flakes

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Women in Ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators to improve their beauty and complexion.

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During the winter, a wood frog allows itself to freeze entirely. Its heart stops beating, blood stops flowing, and its eyes turn white as the lenses freeze. In the summer, it thaws and jumps away, good as new.

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Cherophobia (fear of happiness) is an attitude towards happiness in which individuals may deliberately avoid experiences that invoke positive emotions or happiness because they think something bad will happen after.

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If you leave lime juice on your hands on a sunny day, your skin can get second degree burns and be discolored for years. It’s called “margarita dermatitis” because people often get it while making margaritas outside.

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"Kremlin" means "fortress inside a city," and there are multiple kremlins in Russia. "The Kremlin," which is popularly known, refers to the Moscow Kremlin, which includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the defensive walls and towers. Supposedly, the whole of Moscow has a secret underground metro system that parallels the public Moscow metro, which connects the Kremlin to the FSB headquarters as well as other locations of national importance. Additionally, some of the Soviet Union's honored dead were buried inside the Kremlin wall.

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Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said that if war with the USA lasted longer than 6 months, Japan had no hope of victory. Exactly 6 months after the attack, Japan would suffer a major defeat at the Battle of Midway, from which it never recovered.

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There are 7 types of poop 💩. The shape of your poop is a big clue about your overall gut health. Ideally, your poop should be type 3 or 4 on the scale. If you're closer to type 1 or 2, you're likely constipated, while type 5 through 7 mean you're closer to diarrhea.

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There is more than one Philadelphia in the US, including two in New York. @googlefactss #funfact
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In China, TV adverts can only be shown at the end of a 45-min program instead of during.

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The Chinese Communist Party under Mao banned Bodybuilding in 1953, calling it an "unproductive and narcissistic pursuit of beauty", the ban was lifted 30 years later.

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Turtles, frogs and salamanders breathe through their butt.

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Women's United Soccer Association was the world's first women's soccer league were all players were paid as professionals. The league was founded in 2000 and folded in 2003 after making cumulative losses of around a USD100 million. @googlefactss #funfact
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One bite from the snake called Boomslang can cause you to bleed from all orifices in your body.

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Farm raised ostriches are attracted to humans and a scientific study found that “70% of the ostriches reliably hit on the humans when they were around,” and they would solicit sex “more than twice as often when the humans were nearby.”

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Only two species on earth have learnt to domesticate other species, humans and ants. There are 14 species of ants that can also enslave other ants.

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In the Philippines, they re-enact the Crucifixion on Good Friday by actually nailing people (people who volunteer) to a cross.

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Iceland has such a small population that they have an anti-incest app so you don’t end up hooking up with a family member on a night out.

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Displaying a photograph of the Dalai Lama, praying for his long life, wearing an amulet with his image or having his voice chanting mantras on a mobile ring tone is a subversive criminal act in China.

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