In Dubai, you can UBER a helicopter instead of a taxi. A helicopter ride booked for a group of six costs 144.30$ per person, while individual seats are priced at 171.52$. UberTour is being operated in the same fashion as the company's car service, with bookings made through the app.

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The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold. This gold is dispersed throughout the oceans in tiny particles and is not currently economically feasible to extract. The total value of this gold is estimated to be around $771 trillion, which is nearly 10 times the current global GDP.

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The compulsive desire to look at something that horrifies you, like a horror film or an injury, is called cacospectomania.

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Last image of French diver Paul Henry Nargeolet who saw the Titantic 37 times before he died on his 38th trip on OceanGate’s submersible 'Titan'.

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At around age 23, the average person falls off what the researcher Jennifer Aaker calls ‘the humour cliff’: we start to laugh and smile less and less. The average 4-year-old laughs and smiles 300 times a day, the average 40-year-old — 300 times every 75 days.

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In 2002, Jason Padgett was brutally beaten outside a karaoke bar, resulting in a brain concussion and a severe case of PTSD.

But this may have actually been the best thing that happened to him because he now has Acquired Savant Syndrome - Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and remarkable knowledge after suffering a physical or psychological trauma. 

Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics, and spatial skills and as many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported, thought likely many more go unreported.

But even so, the syndrome is extremely rare, and for someone to develop sudden mathematical skills, that's even rarer.

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Nomophobia is the fear of being without a mobile phone or not being able to use it, which causes anxiety or stress.

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Testicles make several million sperm per day — about 1,500 per second.

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Eating Lobster was considered a mark of poverty before the 20th Century.

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Cambodia has an unusual house that is built to withstand a flash flood.

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A place where you can hear the whisper of your interlocutor at a distance of more than 100 meters.
The semicircular dam on the Barossa Reservoir in Australia has earned the nickname "Whispering Wall" for its acoustic properties.

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