The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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You can't tickle yourself.
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