Spartans magistrates would declare war on their slaves every year so they were free to harm or kill them.
Rip was a stray dog adopted by an Air Raid Patrol in WW2. Although not trained for rescue work, he sniffed out over 100 victims trapped beneath buildings. He was awarded the Dickin medal for his work, which has been held partially responsible for prompting the training of search and rescue dogs.
Ireland limits taxation on writers, artist, composers, painters, etc. for their contribution to culture
There’s a medical procedure called “Fecal Transplant” that literally consists in collecting feces, also called stool or poop, from a healthy donor and introduce them into a patient’s gastrointestinal tract. The procedure can control an infection called Clostridium difficile.
Before Shazam was an app, it was a telephone service which you could call to identify a song. The caller would then get a text message with the song details.
Scientists trying to study birds in Australia fitted them with tracking harnesses, and the birds helped each other take the harnesses off.
Animal “zoomies” have a technical name: Frenetic Random Activity Periods, or “FRAPs”.
The woman who created the green bean casserole is in the Inventor’s Hall of Fame.
In New Jersey, it is illegal for criminals to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a crime.
Ronald Reagan started eating Jelly Belly’s to quit smoking and kept it up so much that during his terms as President he would have more than 300 thousand jelly beans shipped to the White House each month.
Researchers in Botswana ran an experiment to reduce lion attacks in cows. They painted large eyes on the cow backsides. After several years, they showed fewer (zero) attacks on the eye-butt cows vs unpainted cows (15).
‘Denny’ is the only known individual whose parents were two different species of human. She lived ninety thousand years ago in central Asia, where a fragment of her bone was found in 2012. Her mother was a Neanderthal and her father was a Denisovan.
In Laguna, Brazil, bottlenose dolphins actively herd fish towards local fishermen and then signal with tail slaps for the fishermen to throw their nets. This collaboration has been occurring since at least 1847.
A report about American fast food consumption concludes people actually eat more fast food as their income levels go up.
The New Zealand army helped in making the LOTR films by filling as Soldiers and Orcs.
Tasmanian Devils bear up to 50 babies, but only have four nipples. The first four babies that successfully make it from the birth canal into the pouch stand a chance of surviving, while the rest die and are eaten by the mother.
65% of cancer survivors surveyed by ‘war on cancer’ said that they had been ghosted by friends or family after their diagnosis.
The 1993 Chinese film, “An Old Man and his Dog” was banned in its native country for decades due to the discovery that the dog trainer and body double to the lead actor was a serial killer who fed his victims to dogs, including the ones onscreen.
After tigers escaped from a zoo in Georgia and killed a man, advice was issued on what to do if you meet a tiger, including: don’t approach it, don’t run away, and don’t urinate.
A “Chernobyl necklace” is a horizontal scar at the base of the throat from surgery to remove thyroid cancer caused by fallout from a nuclear accident.
During a preview of the Sistine Chapel paintings, one of the Pope’s men criticized all the “disgraceful” nudity. So Michaelangelo painted the critic’s likeness into the Last Judgement, wearing nothing but a snake that’s biting his d@#k.
In 2018, a 34-year-old man blew a hole in his throat by holding his nose and closing his mouth while sneezing. The expulsion of air from a sneeze can propel mucous droplets at a rate of 100 mph. He was given antibiotics and put on a feeding tube for 7 days and recovered with no permanent damage.
Queen guitarist Brian May uses banjo strings on his electric guitars. Banjo strings are much lighter (thinner) and can bend much easier, making that signature Queen sound.
In 1933, yo-yos were banned in Syria, because many locals superstitiously blamed the use of them for a severe drought.
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yea they should have used someone like Bono
Who?
Wow!
I'm guessing you're the same guy told his girlfriend he had a 9" d#@k!!
Slaves were vital to the Macedonian/ Spartan economy.
Military service was required by free born Spartan men so agricultural labor was supplied by slaves!!
Maybe you should quit standing naked in front of the shower mirror shouting
"this is Sparta"
Why are you visualising him naked ?