There is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone - and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.
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If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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Music is as addictive to the brain as sex and drugs.
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