Standing for just 3-4 hours a day for five days a week is the physical equivalent of running ten marathons a year.

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The plus sign in hospitals, is not actually a plus sign, it is a cross symbol. The cross symbol is the sign of the Red Cross, which is a voluntary organization working in medical services. The organization was founded by Henry Denant around 157 years ago in 1863.

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Black chocolate promotes blood flow to the most important areas of the brain for 2-3 hours.

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If you close your eyes in a completely dark room. When you open them, the color you see is called eigengrau, which means intrinsic gray. It's the shade of dark gray people see when there's no light.

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When cats throw things off the table, they want to see if the item is alive or dead.

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Brazil was one of the first creators of a "crypto currency" and fixed their inflation with it.

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The "goosebumps" that begin to run down your skin when you listen to a good song are the result of the release of dopamine in anticipation of the climax of the song.

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Why do some people eat and not gain weight ⁉️

🟠people who don't seem to gain weight may have favorable biological factors, like a faster metabolism, more lean tissue or more muscle mass. Inherently they may be able to burn more calories

🧬Also Genes DNA thin people not only stay slim “by not having the obesity genes, but they also have different genes that protect them” from gaining weight, thinness, like obesity, is a heritable trait

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Yellow watermelon exists!

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Gray hairs can naturally regain their original color when we feel less stressed.

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France will pay €4,000 to all residents who give up their car in favor of a bicycle!

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The sun actually puts off white light and it only looks yellow to us because of our atmosphere scattering blue light away (which is why the sky looks blue).

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A person who sustains damage to the right hemisphere of the brain can develop joke addiction/witzelsucht and experience a compulsive need to make jokes.

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Vodka can actually save lives. In 2007 in an Australian Hospital a patient arrived who had drank ethylene glycol, a common ingredient in antifreeze that can cause renal failure. The Vodka drip given to him prevented the toxic effects of the ethylene glycol from killing him.

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Bees are able to detect cancer before its lethal stages for humans, they can also sense and help find explosives.

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Japanese people over 70 work in places with high radiation. They do this to protect young people from exposure to radiation that takes 20-30 years for cancer to develop.

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Dogs see the invisible magnetic fields surrounding the Earth due to the Cryptochrome molecule in their eyes. This sense allows a dog to find their owners and homes when they've gotten lost many miles from home.

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In the state of Sri Lanka, elephants are considered sacred animals. You can adopt them for $66,000.

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In the 1800s, the country now known as Vietnam asked the Qing dynasty to change their name to "Nam Việt". The dynasty said no, and changed their name to "Việt Nam" instead.

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Australia is the only continent without active volcanoes.

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