In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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Your wounds heal faster if you lick them, you instinctively do this for that reason. Tears help, too.
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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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In Japan, gambling is illegal. However, they circumvent the law by giving out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back to the establishment for cash.
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