"A study surveying 5000 children on video game and social habits came to a conclusion that those playing video games on a regular basis are more satisfied with their lives, are less prone to being hyperactive, have less emotional issues than those who don’t play video games at all ."
"Dogs can suffer from PTSD, and it affects 5% of military service dogs."
"Wildlife researchers around the world have caught deer on film eating birds, in some cases “actually eating living baby birds right out of the nests.”"
"“Pandora’s Box” was actually “Pandora’s Jar.” A translation error made 500 years ago has persisted to this day."
"In 2001, a teenager in Sweden was arrested for suspicion of treason after throwing a strawberry tart at the King."
"There exists a less venomous, invasive Brown Widow Spider that is slowly replacing the Black Widow."
"Film scores were not originally done for artistic reasons, but to drown out the sound of the projector. "
"In a 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote that Germany’s next war will be a world war, “eight to ten million soldiers will massacre one another” and “the devastations of the Thirty Years’ War” will be “compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent.”"
"There is a haunted house that lasts 7 hours and requires a very long, comprehensive legal waiver to be signed before you enter. "
"George Boole, the mathematician and philosopher renowned mostly for his logic, died when his wife, in an effort to cure his pneumonia, poured buckets of cold water all over him, believing that “remedies should resemble their cause.”"
"While awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops, the success of which helped him get caught. "
"In 2004, a group in Melbourne, Victoria organized an event where 30 men would grow a moustache for 30 days in order to raise awareness for prostate cancer and depression in men. The group later formed into the “Movember Foundation Charity” which has since raised $174 million worldwide. "
"British man holds the record for the world’s longest recorded fart, 59 seconds of uninterrupted flatulence. "
"White Hands is a nonprofit organization in Japan that has a service called Ejaculation Help where medical sex workers help people with disabilities reach orgasms."
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