The longest walk ever taken place was by George Meegan. He walked from the bottom of South America to the top of North America. He took 41 million steps, wore out 12.5 pairs of shoes, and collected 8 world records.

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A pluviophile is a person who loves rain in all its manifestations: the smell of wet streets, the sound of drops on the roof and paths on the glass, humid air, gray, low skies.

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Yawning is necessary to cool the brain.
With it, we cool the brain, especially when the ambient temperature is lower than the temperature of the human body.

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Humans are born with about 300 bones, but some fuse together as we grow older. As a result, we only have around 206 left by the time we reach adulthood.

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🕷 When a spider weaves a web, its legs work autonomously, without the involvement of the brain.

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This is a red-shanked douc, aka “costume ape”, it’s sadly endangered & dubbed one of the most beautiful primates on earth.⠀

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Lake Floodhead is one of the most transparent lakes in the world. It is the largest body of water in America, with an area of 510 square kilometers and a depth of up to 100 meters. Montana, USA.

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Wear cotton clothes to avoid your clothes getting on fire while bursting crackers. Avoid wearing synthetic clothes since they easily catch fire.

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In France, it's illegal to publish photographs of handcuffed suspects until they've been convicted.

Doing so before a conviction is a threat to personal dignity; as they would appear to be guilty anyway.

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The fruits of the pistachio tree are harvested at night. The fact is that pistachios emit essential oils in the sun, which can poison harvesters.

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Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust by injecting dead typhus cells into them, allowing them to test positive for typhus despite being healthy. Germans were afraid of the highly contagious disease and refused to deport them to concentration camps.

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In 2019, 25-year old Kenyan engineer Roy Allela found the ultimate solution to bridging the communication barrier between deaf & hearing people with his invention of 'Smart Gloves'. The gloves auto-translate sign language into speech.

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The famous expression Akuna Matata literally means - No problem.

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It is illegal in China to use the national anthem as your ringtone.

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Sinister - recognized as the scariest movie in history

During its viewing, the subjects' heart rate rose by a third above average.

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Uranus is the coldest planet in the Solar System, with temperatures that can reach -224 ℃.

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"Tinku" is a festival in Bolivia where people beat each other for 2 or 3 days straight. During this time, participants will only stop, every now and then to eat, sleep, or drink.

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The smallest fish in the world is the Paedocypris fish, which is only 7.9mm long.

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Lay's, the company that produces the eponymous potato chips, was founded in 1932.

It is the first and oldest national brand of potato chips that has survived to this day.

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Owls’ ears are placed asymmetrically – at different heights on the sides of their faces – so the sounds reach each ear at different times. This is essential to identifying the exact direction of their prey.

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