The color of Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind.

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Before the Western slave trade got going, North African pirates used to regularly kidnap Britons and other Europeans for sale as slaves in Africa. Some 1.25 million Europeans were sold into the African slave trade between 1500-1800.

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The enzyme bromelain in pineapples literally digest the tissues in your mouth, hence the sore mouth feeling when you eat pineapples.

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Saudi Arabia still occasionally sentences people to crucifixion

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A hungry frog surrounded by dead flies, but no flying flies can starve to death since frogs don't recognize immobile flies as food.

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Stress undermines empathic abilities in men but increases them in women. Stressed males tend to become more self-centered and less able to distinguish their own emotions and intentions from those of other people. For women the exact opposite is true.

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Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our solar system. Due to the intensity of its rotation the planet is flat at the poles and bulges at the equator. It takes less than 10 hours for it to complete a rotation on its axis

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The Paraguayan War (1864 - 1870) was so catastrophic for the male population of Paraguay that there were only 26,000 adult men left alive in the country at the end of the war. In addition, the F/M ratio in some areas was as high as 20:1

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Deaf kids in Nicaragua created a completely new sign language out of scratch when placed in deaf schools, after rejecting the sign language the teachers attempted to teach. It is now the official sign language of Nicaragua.

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The USA doesnt use A4 or other A series paper sizes, but instead their own standard, "Letter", "Legal" and "Tabloid" @googlefactss #funfact
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It would take you around 18 months to walk the Great Wall of China.

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African giant pouched rats are trained to detect tuberculosis, which is the world’s second most fatal infectious disease. Although they currently are not an accepted standalone diagnostic tool, one rat can evaluate more samples in 10 minutes than a lab technician can evaluate in 1 day.

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Mother's Day was first celebrated in the United States in 1908, thanks to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, who wanted to honor her own mother and all mothers for their love and sacrifices.

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The feelings of anxiety created by not having your phone are called Nomophobia

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In 2003, a man in Belgium stole diamonds worth 100 million dollars from a vault that was protected by multiple security mechanisms, including a lock with 100 million possible combinations, a seismic sensor, Doppler radar, infrared heat detectors, and a magnetic field. He was caught because he left a partially eaten sandwich near the crime scene which was used as a DNA evidence.

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Swearing on the Bible, is against the Bible

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The brains of cockroaches carry some serious antibiotics, strong enough to slaughter bacteria that have evolved resistance to the hospital antibiotics we humans use.

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A Dutch door is a door divided horizontally in such a fashion that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens. The initial purpose of this door was to keep animals out of farmhouses, or keep children inside, while allowing light and air to filter through the open top.

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98% of all adoptions in Japan are of adult men.

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Cow urine is bottled and sold in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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