Random Interesting Facts

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    Bad At Maths? You Could Have Math Anxiety
    People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.
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    Chicken-Tasting Mushroom
    Chicken-Tasting Mushroom
    There's a mushroom that tastes like chicken and grows in the wild throughout much of the world.
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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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    BackRub
    BackRub
    Google was originally called "BackRub".
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    If you chew gum when you study a subject and then chew the same flavor when you take the test, it will help you remember!
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    On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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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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    Steve Jobs never wrote a single line of programming code.
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