There is a hierarchy among the roosters, and it is the privilege of the highest-ranking rooster to call first at dawn.

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😳 Walt Disney currently holds the most Academy Awards at a lifetime total of 26.

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Jaguars are excellent swimmers. They love water and prefer to settle near bodies of water. They catch fish or open the shells of river turtles.

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Crucifixion was the most common form of execution in Ancient Rome, and is still an official method of capital punishment in a few Islamic countries such as Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the UAE.

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Baboons sometimes steal puppies. They feed and tame them. After this, the dogs grow up to become protectors of the pack and often guard small baboons.‌‌

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A lungfish can spend 4 years out of water. This species gets approximately 90 percent of its oxygen from air. It digs its way into mud and surrounds itself with a secretion that will allow it to survive for up to four years, although it's usually only for a matter of months before the waters return.

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In athletics, if you move as the gun sounds, you are considered to have false started, as the human brain cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds.

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😳 Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic. When she was 16, the Queen joined the British employment agency at the Labour Exchange and learned the basics of truck repair.

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In Ancient Rome, a gladiator was only someone who fought against other men. If you were in the arena facing wild beasts, you were called a bestiarii. There were two types of bestiarii: those condemned to die in such a manner, and those doing it voluntarily, for pay or for glory.

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There is a disorder called Body Integrity Identity Disorder where sufferers are at war with their bodies and they seek to sever limbs. Sometimes it has led people to injure themselves with guns or chain saws in desperate efforts to force surgical amputations.

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The light bulb is the universal symbol for a new idea because of Felix the Cat cartoons.

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Smallpox is the only human disease that has been successfully eradicated. it has no cure, and the vaccine against it was the first and most successful vaccine.

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Two bananas provide enough energy for a 90-minute workout.

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The Catholic Church has an official position on Jesus’ blood type. It’s AB.

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A hen turns her egg nearly 50 times each day to keep the yolk from sticking to the side.

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France classifies books as an "essential good," along with electricity, bread, and water.

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Frozen vegetables contain more vitamin C than those sold fresh.

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😳 M&Ms are named after the businessmen who created them. Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie, who apparently didn't have the best relationship, as Mars leveraged Murrie out of his 20% share of the business before it became the biggest-selling sweet in the US. 😨

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In Korea, wisdom teeth are called “love teeth” in reference to young adulthood and the pain of first love.

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😱 You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from over 2 miles away.

Blue whales weigh an average of between 130,000 and 150,000kg, with their hearts weighing roughly 180kg. 💀

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