Random Interesting Facts

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    The Firefly Is Not a Fly
    The firefly is not actually a fly, but a beetle.
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    Moustache Tea Cups
    Moustache Tea Cups
    In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
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    There are actually seven different types of twins: Identical, Fraternal, Mirror-Image, Polar Body (Half Identical), Mixed Chromosome, Superfecundation, and Superfetation.
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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    Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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    Man Lost 50-75% of His Brain to Water on the Brain, Lived Normally
    A 44-year-old man lost around 50%-75% of his brain to hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and continued to live a normal life. Specialists believe the fluid filled so slowly over his life that the brain remapped itself to retain functionality despite the loss of mass.
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    Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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