Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
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Foreign accent syndrome is a rare brain disorder which causes people to speak in a foreign accent involuntarily.
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A cat can jump FIVE TIMES as high as it is tall!
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Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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