Before he became Hulk Hogan, Terry Bollea was a bass player in a local Tampa band called Ruckus.

He was active in the mid-1970s and known for his music and huge size. One night, two wrestling legends, Jack and Gerald Brisco, saw him play in a club and believed he could be a great wrestler. They helped him get trained, launching his wrestling career.

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A Nigerian scientist, Dr. Samuel Achilefu, led a team that developed high-tech goggles to help surgeons detect cancer cells more accurately.

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"Marriage graduation" (sotsukon) is a concept that originated in Japan where couples remain legally married but choose to live independently sometimes in separate homes.

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Only about 17% of Japanese citizens hold a passport as of 2025, down from 24% in 2019-even though Japan has one of the world's strongest passports.

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IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, who started the company at age 17, was famously frugal; he flew coach, stayed in budget hotels, drove a 20-year-old Volvo, and sought haircuts in developing countries.

He passed away at 91 in 2018, with a net worth estimated at nearly $60 billion.

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In 1977, Argentina flew a pregnant woman to their military base in Antarctica so she could have the first baby to ever be born on the continent.

In doing so, the Argentine government believed this would give them an undisputable claim on the land, but the claim is not recognized internationally.

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Wedding cakes were originally white to symbolize purity and virginity.

Since pure sugar was expensive, a whiter cake indicated your higher wealth and class.

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There’s a religion in Nigeria called Chrislam.

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You can tell if a baby is self-aware by drawing a red dot on his/her forehead in front of a mirror.

If the baby touches its reflection, he/she is not aware. If it rubs its own forehead to try to remove the mark, it is.

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If a dead body goes undiscovered long enough for skin-slip to start and there’s no one to identify the body, forensics can cut the skin around your wrist, slip the skin off, and wear it like a glove in order to get the fingerprints.

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Before his political career, Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestler with only one recorded loss in about 300 matches.

After establishing his dominance, he once challenged a crowd, saying, "I'm the big buck of this lick... If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns." The challenge went unanswered.

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An estimated 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV infection because they have an ancestor who survived bubonic plague the “Black Death.”

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A Man’s brain tumor caused him to orgasm whenever he looked at safety pins.

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In February 2019, when she was just 35 weeks old and in the womb, doctors made a rare and astonishing discovery during a routine ultrasound: Itzamara was carrying her own twin inside her abdomen.

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The Concorde flew so fast that on evening westbound flights from London or Paris to New York, passengers could see the sun appear to rise again after takeoff, because the jet was moving faster than Earth's rotation at that latitude.

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The Huichol Indian men of Mexico tie ropes around their testicles when their wives are giving birth.

When she feels a painful contraction, she tugs on the rope so her husband will share some of the pain as part of their child’s entrance into the world.

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A riddle from 1688 known as the Molyneux's Problem goes: "If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone?"

In 2003, the riddle was solved when five people had their sight restored through surgery. They could not.

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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 2015, two New Jersey daycare employees were arrested for running a toddler "Fight Club" among a dozen kids between the ages of 4 and 6.

They were caught after posting the fights on Snapchat.

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Today Marks the start of a New Year (2018) in Ethiopian Calendar. We would like to wish our fam in Ethiopia a Happy New Year🎉🎊🍾

A Professional sleeper is someone who gets paid to sleep. They generally do this as part of scientific research focused on analysing sleep patterns or evaluating the quality of various sleep-related products.

As of Aug 2, 2022, the average annual pay for a Professional Sleeper in the United States is $59,998 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $28.85 an hour. This is the equivalent of $1,154/week or $5,000/month.

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