When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.
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The single biggest predictor of love is proximity.
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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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An average heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping some 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers. Over a 70-year life span, that adds up to more than 2.5 billion heartbeats.
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Venice Island was built on a foundation of tree trunks. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice.
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Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.
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