‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.
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Pumbaa from "The Lion King" was the first character to fart in a Disney movie.
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Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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