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Helicoprion was a relative of the shark that lived 270 million years ago. It was approximately 7.5m long and had chainsaw-like teeth.

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A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.

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There are around 200 frozen corpses on Mount Everest.

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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.

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Sequencing DNA from Cigarette Butt in Street and 3D Printing Face from It

It's possible to sequence DNA on gum and cigarette butts found in the street and 3D print a very accurate face from it.

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Megalodon was the biggest shark that ever existed. It was larger than the average city bus and could bite down with a force between 10.8 and 18.2 tons - enough to crush a prehistoric whale's skull as easily as a grape.

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Titanoboa was the largest snake that ever lived, measuring in at 13-15 meters in length and weighing about 2,500 lbs.

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An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

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