The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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On average, men's noses are 10% larger than women's.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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People who have a strong friendship possess the ability to communicate with one another through facial expressions.
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‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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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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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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