In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent.
45
Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
473
Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
347
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
138
In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
41
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
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All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
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