The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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Yawns are more contagious among people with closer relationships.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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