"Honey Nut Cheerios now uses a fake almond flavor made from crushed fruit pits instead of real almonds."
"There’s a 37% chance that the Cascadia fault will produce an earthquake within in the next 50 years powerful enough to destroy the Pacific NW."
"There is evidence to support that Ancient Egypt had proctologists and their term for the position literally translates to “shepherd of the anus.” "
"Canadians make a candy called tire d’érable by pouring maple syrup on snow, then rolling it onto sticks."
"Colorado kidnapper Jessie Dimmick sued the couple he kidnapped for breaking their oral contract to hide him from the police if he let them go."
"Old batteries are recycled into fertilizer to help grow corn. "
"People racing each other on the backs of Ostriches is common in Africa. "
"A 1,000 year old “fish trap” made of stones was found off the British coast with Google Maps."
"Croissants are Austrian, not French. "
"When the mummy of Ramesses II (aka Egyptial king Ozymandias) was flown to Paris in 1974, it was issued a passport that listed his occupation as “King (deceased)”."
"In Kazakhstan, there is a town where people suddenly started falling asleep for 5 days or longer."
"Certain bears in Russia have become addicted to sniffing Jet Fuel out of discarded barrels. Going as far as stalking helicopters for the drops of fuel they leave behind. "
"A 9-year-old pledge to donate money on her birthday instead of receiving presents. She didn’t reach her goal. A year later she passed away and her story made people donate $1.2 million which helped change the lives of over 60,000 people in Ethiopia. "
"There is a man wandering through the Amazon rainforest thought to be the last member of his tribe. No one knows his language or what tribe he belonged to. "
"Due to the high intelligence of the octopus, the U.K. has considered it an honorary vertebrate for the sake of animal cruelty laws and it is illegal in many countries to perform surgical procedures on an octopus without anesthesia."
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