Your Hidden Muscle

Touch your thumb to your pinky and flex your wrist slightly. If a tendon pops out on your wrist, you possess a rudimentary "tail" on your arms — the palmaris longus muscle. About 15% of people lack it entirely, and it doesn't affect grip strength at all.

Evolution is slowly erasing this element, as it was critical for our ancestors to climb trees efficiently. Today, it is merely an atavism that modern surgeons use as a "patch" during plastic surgeries.

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Huskies are one of the cleanest and kindest dog breeds. She has no smell of skin and wool.

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African elephants are known to help injured or resting humans and even bury the dead, A woman once fell asleep beneath a tree and woke to an elephant gently touching her.

As more elephants gathered, they covered her with branches. She was found the next day, completely unharmed.

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The first football match ever shown on television was Arsenal versus Arsenal Reserves

The BBC started its television service in 1936, although it was nearly a year before the very first televised match of football was screened – a specially-arranged friendly match between Arsenal and Arsenal Reserves at Highbury on 16 September 1937.

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Pandas do not have a special place to sleep, neither a bed nor a nest. Therefore, they fall asleep where they found themselves at the moment of fatigue.

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Batophobia is a fear of the deep. The occurrence of this disorder can be associated with accidents on the water, as a result of which a person has experienced emotional distress.

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In German, there is a word for the strange feeling of being embarrassed on someone else's behalf: Fremdschämen.

It combines fremd (“foreign” or “someone else's”) with schämen (“to be ashamed”). You might feel Fremdschämen while watching someone confidently make a painfully awkward mistake in public—even though you aren't involved at all.

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Sweden has more islands than any other country.

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The Ethiopian bible is the oldest, most complete and original bible on earth.

Written on goat skin in the early Ethiopian language of Ge’ez. It is also World’s first illustrated Christian Bible.

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In Japan, people who turn 20 traditionally celebrate Seijin no Hi, or Coming of Age Day. The national holiday is held on the second Monday of January, and ceremonies are organized by local governments for young adults.

Women often wear elaborate furisode kimono, while men may wear suits or traditional clothing.

The celebration marks the transition into adulthood and has traditionally been associated with responsibilities such as voting and legal adulthood, although Japan lowered the legal age of adulthood from 20 to 18 in 2022.

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Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward.

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Japan has over 5 million vending machines.

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Sound travels 4 times faster in water than in air.

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The coldest city in the world is Oymyakon. It is also the Pole of Cold, as well as the coldest place on Earth, where there is a permanent population.

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Earthworms are hermaphrodites, meaning each worm has both male and female reproductive organs. Cutting one in two does not normally create two worms. In some species, the front part can regrow missing sections, while the rear part usually dies. So it is not exactly a cloning trick!
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The sense of smell is heightened in space

If perfume is sprayed on the ship, it can bring painful sensations.

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The prey has a horizontal shape of the pupil to better scan the horizon. The predator is vertical to better focus on prey.

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Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.

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