Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the letter "e".
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There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.
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An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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