"Letters sent to London Newspapers by Jack the Ripper had a sample of saliva from their stamps tested in 2006. The results seemed to point that the sender of the letters might have been a woman."
"Maybelline was started when Williams noticed his older sister Mabel applying a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to give them a darker, fuller look. "
"Moon Knight has a multiple personality disorder. He created personas based on Spiderman, Wolverine, and Captain America to help him when fighting crime. "
"King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway. "
"John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli in Lord of the Rings, lost the top of his middle finger as a kid and had special prosthetic made. He played a prank on Peter Jackson where he cut off the tip of the prosthetic, covered it with blood, walked up to Peter and said, “Boss, I had an accident.”"
"How squid choose and hold particular skin colors to help camouflage themselves remains unknown and is particularly interesting because they are completely colorblind."
"Daylight saving time was originally introduced to cut coal consumption during World War I "
"Shakespeare intentionally made grammatical errors to heighten the attention of his audiences before key points in his plays. This technique is called ‘functional shift’ and the use of it keeps the brain alive. "
"NBA player Steven Adams is the youngest of 18 children. The boys in his family have an average height of 6 feet 9 inches and the girls average at 6 feet. One of his sister is an Olympic Gold Medalist in shot put."
"During WWII a fully grown reindeer lived on a British submarine, ate a navigation chart and got so fat that it couldn’t get back out. "
"Cheddar Cheese is never naturally orange."
"There is an abandoned 120 year old concert hall buried underground in the middle of downtown Boston."
"Horses and zebras cannot live in the same areas because zebras carry a virus that has no effect on zebras but is deadly to horses. "
"Drowning in salt water is different than drowning in freshwater. It takes longer, and salt water draws blood from the cells into the lungs, which makes you drown in your own blood."
"We can’t dispose of nuclear waste in volcanoes because they aren’t hot enough to split uranium’s atomic nuclei and make it’s radioactivity inert."
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There is, however, a virus in parts of Africa which is deadly for horses and less lethal for zebras and donkeys.