Chocolate has long been a currency.

At the beginning of our era, ancient civilizations living in South Africa and Mexico used cocoa beans in the monetary system.

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If you cut $10 Australian dollars in half, you can legally use each half as $5.

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Mercedes’ three-point star in its logo represents its mission to make transportation easier on land, on water, and in the air.

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Women in traditional Rwandan societies avoid eating goat meat, as it’s believed it will cause them to grow a beard.

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An Octopus has three hearts and a blue blood.

Two hearts pump blood to the gills while the third pumps it throughout the body. The main heart stops beating when the octopus swims.

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Sharks are older than trees.

The first sharks appeared over 400 million years ago. Trees didn't become common until roughly 350 million years ago.

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How airline seating works.

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The Fingerprints of koalas are so similar to humans that they can confuse forensic investigators.

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There is enough gold dissolved in Earth's oceans to cover all land with a thin layer of gold.

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A Teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh billions of tons on Earth.

Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the universe.

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Africa is larger than the United States, China, India, and most of Europe combined.

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$3 million inside the glass at bus stop, was put as an advertisement by a bullet proof glass making company.

If you break it, you can take the money home!

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The Moon moves about 3.8 cm farther from Earth every year.

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Psychopaths are immune to contagious yawning.

Catching someone's yawn is linked to empathy, and psychopaths are often immune.

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Residents in toraja indonesia, take their dead loved ones out of the grave once every year to celebrate their lives

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New Zealand has a law that prohibits anyone born on or after January 1, 2009 from purchasing tobacco.

It means that one day only one person in New Zealand will be legally permitted to purchase cigarettes.

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