25 Amazing Facts You’ll Want To Know

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Inception was originally a horror movie.

Though we all know and love Inception for its mind-bending action and suspense, in its early stages of development, Christopher Nolan originally envisioned it as a horror movie. As it grew and evolved, it changed into a heist movie.

 

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In 1919, a wave of molasses killed 21 people in Boston.

In 1919, 14,000 tons of molasses burst from its tank and created a 30-foot tall wave of goo rushing down the city streets of Boston, killing 21 people. The sticky goo made it almost impossible to rescue anyone and slowed down relief efforts. Some in Boston claim you can still smell the molasses.

 

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The cat is the only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible.

Even though Egypt appears quite often in the Bible, the cat is the only domestic animal not mentioned. They’re mentioned once in the book of Baruch, but most Jewish and Christian traditions don’t consider that scripture.

 

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The French eat 30,000 tons of snails a year.

While most Americans likely haven’t eaten one snail, the French as a whole eat 30,000 tons of snails a year. However, only 1,000 tons of those snails come from the 100 French snail farms. Chances are if you ate snails in France, they probably were picked up under a rock somewhere.

 

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A bee sting can relieve arthritis pain.

Researchers discovered the venom in a bee sting can relieve the inflammation in arthritis. They’re hopeful the findings will help them discover a treatment which can prevent or relieve arthritis pain entirely.

 

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In 1968, "#" was called an "Octothorp" as a joke.

It has many names. Number sign. Pound key. Hashtag. Hex. But at Bell Technologies in 1968, many called it an “Octothorp” as a joke, combining “Octo” and Gold Medal Olympian Jim Thorpe’s name together. There are several other hypotheses of how this name came to be, but we’ll just call it hashtag.

 

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Medical schools in early American states practiced grave robbing.

In the 19th century, high demand for cadavers from medical schools encouraged people to go grave robbing and sell the bodies. While states like New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Maine all made the practice of grave robbing illegal, it didn’t work. Most families had to put cages over graves to keep people from exhuming the bodies.

 

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Tsar Peter the Great really liked pulling teeth.

Besides ruling over Russia with an iron fist, Peter the Great considered himself something of a dentist. If he ever got the chance, he would gleefully pull out people’s rotten teeth. Afterward, he’d keep all the pulled teeth as a sort of token for his work.

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Part of Einstein's brain was 15 percent wider than normal.

When researchers examined Albert Einstein’s brain, they discovered his inferior parietal lobe was 15% larger than normal. Many believe this gave him a higher intelligence for math.

 

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Americans eat 100 acres of pizza a day.

While the French love snails, Americans love pie…pizza pie, that is. Americans eat 100 acres of pizza every day which is roughly 3 billion pizzas a year. It’s starting to make sense why heart disease is the number one killer in the United States

 

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A bee sting can relieve arthritis pain.

Researchers discovered the venom in a bee sting can relieve the inflammation in arthritis. They’re hopeful the findings will help them discover a treatment which can prevent or relieve arthritis pain entirely.

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