Random Interesting Facts

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    Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar.
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    A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
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    Caffeine boosts memory.
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    Game Boy Uses More Computing Power Than First Lunar Mission
    The technology of a single Game Boy exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
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    Ancient Europeans Were Lactose Intolerant Thousands of Years after They Started Making Cheese
    For 4,000 years after they started making cheese, Ancient Europeans were lactose intolerant.
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    The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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    Lincoln and Darwin Birthday
    Lincoln and Darwin Birthday
    Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.
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    In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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