If you suffer from micturition syncope, you faint while urinating or immediately after urinating.

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You need a license to play golf in Belgium and The Netherlands.

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The heart briefly stops beating during a sneeze due to the sudden increase in pressure in the chest cavity caused by the contraction of the diaphragm and chest muscles.

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On average, a person loses about 20 kg of skin throughout their lifetime, completely replacing the top layer of skin every month.

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There is a zebra in Hawaii with “golden” stripes instead of black, due to a pigmentation abnormality called amelanism.

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Cigarette filters were designed with color-changing chemicals to give the illusion that they filter out toxins. In reality, the filters have little to no health benefits.

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Carrots prevent the destruction of brain cells.

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A lobster's brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its teeth in its stomach and its kidneys in its head. It also hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb, meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed.

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11% of the world's gold reserves are held by Indian households.

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One in every 18 people has a third nipple. The third nipple, also known as polythelia, is the result of a mutation in dormant genes.

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In the 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.

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🐜 When they land on water, ants quickly spread out over the surface, gripping onto each other tightly with their jaws and limbs.

This forms something like a makeshift raft.

By forming these living rafts, ants can drift on the surface of the water for months.

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In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there is a place where for unknown reasons, a huge number of white sharks appear every year.

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In fact, banknotes are not made of paper, as many believe, but of cotton.

That's why they don't deteriorate for so long.

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The football legend Pele was banned from playing for a non-brazilian team by a presidential law declaring him a 'national treasure'

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Dogs and cats are not the only animals that recognize our emotions.

Elephants also understand us.

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In Ancient Egypt, dwarfs were seen as people who had celestial gifts, were treated with the greatest respect and enjoyed the highest social positions.

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Nissan cars when shown in advertisements often have the number 23, because in Japanese, two is "ni" and three is "san."

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For 20 years, Argentina was considered one of the richest countries on Earth.

However, today the country is mired in huge debts and has experienced one of the largest economic downturns in modern history.

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The reason why we hate the recorded sound of our voice is because our skull changes the resonance of our voice from within and creates more bass. When we hear a digital recording of our voice, although slightly unfamiliar to ourselves, it’s exactly how other people hear it.

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