Amou Haji, the world's dirtiest man, was an Iranian man who hadn't washed in 60+ years due to a superstition that soap and water might cause disease.. He died in 2022 at 94, less than a month after his village persuaded him to finally wash.

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In France, you can marry a dead person. Posthumous marriage in France is legal but must be approved by several civil servants and the family of the deceased. France is one of the few countries in which it is legal to marry a partner posthumously.

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The Barramundi fish grows up as a male and after 2 years, turns into a female. This fascinating process occurs through a biological process known as protandry.

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Eggs contain tyrosine, from which the body synthesizes norepinephrine and dopamine, which improve mood and give a feeling of cheerfulness.

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👩🏻‍⚕️ In Israel, young surgeons are practicing operating on grapes.

They are learning how to make incisions and stitch without juice leakage.

This helps them develop precision and skill without using real tissues.

In addition, grapes have a similar structure to some human organs, such as the liver and kidneys, making this training even more beneficial.

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Kenya is the only country in the world where people can watch Netflix for free.

Netflix has a free mobile plan in the country.

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In November 2022, Edwin Castro, a resident of California won a world-record $2.05b in the state’s Mega Millions, the largest ever for a national lottery. The ticket cost him $2.

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This is a Quokka. The happiest animal on Earth.

When threatened by a predator, the female Quokka can relax their pouch muscles, dropping their baby and sacrificing it in order to escape.

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Stuffy nose? Leave a sliced onion near where you sleep and let it sit for the night. When you wake up you'll have a clear nose.

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NETFLIX IS OLDER THAN GOOGLE!

Netflix was founded in 1997. But that time, the company didn't seem to become the world leader in video on demand - Netflix was just renting out DVDs and delivering them by mail. And Google was founded in 1998.

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North Korea does not use the normal Gregorian calendar like most of the world. Instead it uses a different calendar system called the Juche calendar for numbering the years and year one of this calendar began on Kim Il Sung’s (The founder of North Korea) birthday.

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The Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. It was built by the ancient Romans in the 16th century AD under Emperor Hadrian.

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A Californian couple named Helen & Les Brown were both born on December 31st, 1918. They married for 75 years and both lived to the age of 94 until they both died in 2013, one day apart.

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Over the rivers of Russia, the wooden churches of Kizhi, built in 1714, use no nails, with 22 domes. Frozen winters preserved them. They’re a UNESCO marvel.

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Shima Hospital (島病院, Shima byōin) is a Japanese hospital, now clinic, in Hiroshima, Japan. It was the exact location where the atomic bombing of Hiroshima took place on August 6, 1945. Shima Hospital is considered to be ground zero.

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Within the forests of Brazil, the Kayapo tribe uses body paint from genipap fruit, a practice from 1000 AD. Patterns ward off spirits. Their culture resists Amazon development.

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Pregnancy testing can be dated back to an ancient Egyptian papyrus from 1350 BCE. Their medical professionals asked potentially pregnant women to urinate on bags of wheat and barley, claiming that germination of the grain indicated pregnancy: wheat for a boy and barley for a girl.

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Coke in two-liter plastic bottles first appeared on the market in 1977.

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There is almost no street crime in Japan.

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