The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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