"Female sand tiger sharks get pregnant with up to 50 embryos. When one of the embryos reaches some 10 cm (4 inches) in length, it eats all the smaller embryos so that only one large embryo remains."
"Pringles are technically not potato chips but a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and some potato flakes"
"In 1976 during the filming of an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man, the crew discovered the mummified corpse of Elmer McCurdy, an Oklahoma outlaw being used as a fun-house prop. "
"Tickets for the first Super Bowl in 1967 were $12 and 33,000 seats went unsold. "
"Chipotle peppers are just smoke-dried jalapeños."
"A Roman envoy stopped the Seleucid invasion of Egypt by drawing a circle around their king and daring him to literally cross the line."
"Stress negatively affects your health only if you believe that stress negatively affects your health. A 2011 study of 29,000 people showed high stress causes a 43% increased risk of dying, but only for people who believed that stress was harmful."
"There was a war in Switzerland in 1802 called Stecklikrieg that was fought out with wooden clubs because Napoleon took away their weapons. "
"On the 2001 New Zealand census, 53,715 people listed their religion as “Jedi.”"
"One of the largest bats in the world, the golden-capped fruit bat, with a wingspan of 5.6 feet, does not possess echolocation. It instead relies on its keen senses of sight and smell to locate food, usually traveling more than 25 miles for it. The species is now facing extinction. "
"In order to dissuade Germans from invading, Julius Caesar built a bridge into their territory, marched his armies across, returned, then destroyed the bridge. The Germans got the message and never invaded. "
"Before he became Jon Bon Jovi, aspiring musician John Bongiovi made his recorded debut in a somewhat inauspicious manner, singing on a Star Wars-themed Christmas album. The song was called ‘R2-D2, We Wish You a Merry Christmas.’ "
"There are multiple active volcanoes in Antarctica."
"East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East. It is still the most popular cola in Thuringia, making the German state one of the few places in the world where Coca-Cola is not the leader. "
"Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The scent is from water interacting with plant oils. "
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They also simply started trading. It was profitable for both sides and much less risky than fighting.
People who read a fact dumb.