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0064. Crocodiles can’t stick their tongues out.
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0063. The oldest cookie in the world is about 4 200 years old and was found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.
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0062. A man called Johannes Relleke was once attacked by bees. He was stung 2 443 times.
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0061. A blue whale’s tongue is the size of an elephant.
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0060. Some octopuses have three hearts. Two of them are used to pump out blood into the octopus’ arms. The third one is used to pump out blood into the rest of the body.
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0059. “The Scavenger’s Daughter” was a very brutal torture device used during the 16th century. It was basically used to squish a person so hard that his/her ears and nose began to bleed.
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0058. A British farmer used to feed his cows with carrots. The milk turned pink and the farmer had to get white carrots from France to even out the colour.
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0057. Apparently, the best tasting part of a camel… is the hump.
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0056. There’s a tiny, and extremely spicy, type of chili called Phrik Khi Nuu aka “mouse dropping chili”.
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0055. The nursery rhyme “Ring-a-Ring-o’Roses” supposedly refers to the Black Plague. The “roses” refers to the red marks that showed up on an infected persons body. The “posies” refers to the flowers people carried with them to protect themselves from the stench they thought caused the plague. “Atishoo” refers to the first symptom - sneezing.
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0054. Sir Francis Bacon was the first person to freeze a chicken. In 1626 he filled a chicken with snow to see if the entire chicken would freeze. It did. But during this experiment Sir Francis Bacon got pneumonia and died soon after. Apparently the chicken’s ghost now haunts Pond Square in England.
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0053. If blue whales were to live on land, they would be crushed by their own weight. The only reason they can live in the ocean is because the water carries them.
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0052. The Stone Fish is the most poisonous fish in the world. if you step on one, you will die a very painful death within 20 minutes.
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0051. Jellyfish poop through their mouths. They only have one body opening and they use it for everything.
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0050. When a vampire bat gets sick, another bat will eat enough food/blood to be able to feed the sick bat. It takes the blood back to the cave and throws the blood up over the sick bat just so it won’t miss a meal.
EST. 2011.
Disgusting, shocking and horrifying.
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