"A creature known as a “Tardigrade” has survived all five mass extinction events. "
"Sloths only poop once a week and it’s called the poo dance."
"Diamonds were not originally mined. They were actually found alongside or at the bottom of rivers in India."
"Koalas are good swimmers. This helps them in surviving floods. "
"Children who speak Mandarin are far more likely to develop perfect pitch because of tone association with words, and that one word can have up to four different meanings depending on the pitch at which it is spoken. "
"The filming of The Godfather was disrupted by actual Mafia member, Joe Colombo. Producer Al Ruddy met with him and reviewed the script, striking the word “Mafia” completely from the movie. Colombo and his pals also managed to elbow their way into casting and ended up as extras in the film. "
"The Beastie Boys won a lawsuit against a company for the unauthorized use of their song “Girls” and had the $1 Million settlement donated to a charity supporting education for Girls."
"Cincinnatus was a man who was twice given near-absolute authority over the Roman Republic and gave it up both times. "
"Woodstock would have never happened if not for one dairy farmer, Max Yasgur, who allowed the festival to take place on his property after surrounding villages declined to host the event. As a result, the locals boycotted his products. "
"The doughnut industry in California is controlled primarily by Cambodian immigrants."
"One of Russia’s most popular ’90s TV shows challenged contestants to steal a car. If they could evade police for 35 minutes, they got to keep it. The show was pulled after being linked to a rise in car thefts. "
"There are approximately 10 quintillion (that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000) insects on our planet or roughly 200 million insects for each human. "
"Laser removal doesn’t remove the tattoo. It just helps break it down so white blood cells can carry it away. You poop out your tattoo. "
"The ability to read music uses different parts of the brain than reading words, and there are cases where a stroke has caused people to lose one ability, but not the other. "
"Icelanders can easily read old Norse, a dead language that was spoken in Scandinavia over 1000 years ago because written Icelandic has changed so little."
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I went to high school with a girl whose parents did that with part of her brothers college tuition ...
#20 True, but the ability to sing a melodic song in mandarine is the most difficult of all languages. Going up or down to make each word perfect for meaning while keeping a tune is a mathematical equation of massive complexity. I know, I've tried!