In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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There is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.
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In 1996, an Iraqi man named Sam Eisho moved to Australia and used the welfare system as income. Some years later, he became successful and wrote a cheque for more than $18,000 to the Australian Government (every cent they gave him).
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Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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