25 Amazing Facts You’ll Want To Know

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01-Tiger shark babies cannibalize each other in utero.
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With up to twelve embryos in a shark mother’s belly, only one or two make it out alive. This is because the largest of the pack eats the others in a literal struggle for survival.
 
02-Giraffes can clean their ears with their tongue.
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A giraffe’s ridiculously long neck also includes a ridiculous tongue which can be as long as 20 inches (50.8 cm). They use their long tongue to eat food from taller trees…but, they also use it to clean their noses and their ears.
 
01-Tiger shark babies cannibalize each other in utero.
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With up to twelve embryos in a shark mother’s belly, only one or two make it out alive. This is because the largest of the pack eats the others in a literal struggle for survival.
Damn!
 
03-Creative people remember vivid dreams better.
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After doing a study with 193 college students, researchers believe there’s a direct correlation between creativity and the ability to remember vivid dreams. Of the students they studied, the ones that were prone to daydreaming and having big imagination could remember their dreams better than others.
 
04-Domestic dogs learned to bark from being with humans.
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Domestic dogs have one key difference from their wild counterparts, they bark. They not only bark, but they bark in certain acoustic ways for various purposes whether for alarm or play. Researchers believe this occurred over thousands of years by evolving to human requirements.
 
05-A grenade blast underwater is more deadly than on land.
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If you had to choose between facing a grenade on land or in water which would you pick? If you picked water, then you’re dead. While facing off against a grenade on land isn’t great either, the explosion underwater sends a shockwave with enough pressure to crush your lungs or lead to brain hemorrhaging. You’ve got a little better chance ducking for cover on land. Let’s just hope we never are faced with this scenario in the first place.
 
06-Russia considered beer a soft drink until 2011.
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Russians like their adult beverages. In fact, an average Russian drinks about 32 pints of pure alcohol every year. So, it probably came as a huge surprise when their government decided to classify beer as alcohol rather a soft drink in an attempt to help curb alcohol abuse.
 
07-France still used the guillotine in 1977.
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In 1977, the Apple II went on sale, Star Wars was released, and France still executed people with a guillotine. While most people connect the guillotine with medieval and renaissance time periods, France still kept the tradition alive all the way up to the modern era.
 
08-A Japanese man kept his dead father in a freezer for 13 years.
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Believing one day his father would be brought back to life, a Japanese man kept him in a freezer for thirteen years. Neighbors called the police complaining about a foul smell. Surprisingly, the man didn’t break any laws and wasn’t be charged.
 
09-Sigourney Weaver was paid $35,000 for Alien and $1,000,000 for Aliens.
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Being as Sigourney Weaver’s character in Alien was the sole survivor and there couldn’t be much of a sequel without her, Weaver’s agent pushed hard for her to get a big paycheck for the movies Aliens, and she got it. While she only got $35,000 for the first movie, the movie Aliens gave her $1,000,000, and the paychecks only increased thereafter. Talk about a big bump up!
 
10-The height of the Eiffel Tower changes with the temperature.
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Because of thermal expansion, in the summer months, the Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6.75 inches (17 cm). Of course, once the sun goes down, the tower decreases again.
 
11-Mark Zuckerberg and Vin Diesel are friends.
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Vin Diesel and Mark Zuckerberg met on Facebook and became good friends after that. They hang out at the Facebook campus. Zuckerberg is a big fan of his work and encouraged Diesel to return to Xander Cage.
 
12-Charlie Chaplin gets the award for most takes in one scene.
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It’s safe to say comedy legend Charlie Chaplin was a bit of a perfectionist. On the set of City Lights, Chaplin demanded the scene be just right. They ended up doing 342 takes.
 
You can't hum with your nose closed.
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You can’t hum with your nose closed. Go ahead. Try it. We’ll wait. See?
 
In Minnesota, it's against the law to have a greased pig contest.
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If you’re in Minnesota, definitely don’t oil up a pig and chase after it. It’s against the law! We’re guessing this crazy law was written to protect animals. It’s kind of nuts people actually did this.
 
In the 18th century, men were advised to cut off their left testicle if they wanted a boy.
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Pseudoscience on swaying gender selection has been around for centuries. Doctors believed the left testicle always produced girls in the 18th century, so if a man desperately wanted a boy, they’d advise he cut off his left testicle to always get a boy.
 
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