A 2013 study 📚 suggests men with smaller testicles are more likely to make better fathers 👨👧👦. This research proposes an evolutionary trade-off 🧬 between investing in mating effort 💑 (linked to larger testicles🥚🥚) versus parenting effort 👨🍼 (linked to smaller testicles) in hands-on care, such as feeding 🥣 and changing diapers 👶.

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That "new car smell" is a toxic chemical cocktail! ☠️

You're breathing VOCs from plastics, foam, and adhesives—including formaldehyde. It's essentially off-gassing from your car's interior.
Carmakers are now phasing it out for health reasons.

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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a Hindu nationalist leader and Indian independence activist. He created the Hindutva ideology, was imprisoned by the British, and remains controversial.

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Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone. 😱📵

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It's National Black Cat Day! 🐈‍⬛️🖤
Share a photo of your majestic void!

Did you know black cats are considered lucky in some cultures?

They're also less likely to be adopted from shelters due to silly superstitions. Time for your kitty to perfect that mysterious, "I know your secrets" look—maybe they're simply plotting world domination or just napping!🐾

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👑 On November 17, 1989, the Velvet Revolution began in Czechoslovakia — a peaceful student protest that led to the end of communist rule within weeks.
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The chills ❄️ you sometimes feel when listening to music 🎵 are called "musical frisson" 🎶. This happens when emotionally powerful moments in music, like a sudden shift in harmony 🎼 or a dramatic crescendo 📈, trigger a response in your brain's reward system 🧠 and emotional centers , leading to that physical sensation of chills ❄️ or goosebumps.

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It is common and normal for mothers to poop while giving birth. This often happens during the pushing stage because the muscles used to push a baby out are the same ones used to have a bowel movement.

@googlefactss #humanbody #nowyouknow

🚀 NASA's Psyche mission is on its way to asteroid 16 Psyche—a giant metal rock packed with gold, iron, and nickel worth an estimated $10 quintillion! 🪐

If all that treasure were landed on Earth, it could crash the global economy by making gold and precious metals worthless due to oversupply. 💰📉

Launched in 2023, the spacecraft will arrive in 2029 to study the asteroid's core, not mine it, helping us understand how planets form.
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Volkswagen was created by direct order of Adolf Hitler. 🪖

In 1937, the Nazi leader commissioned Ferdinand Porsche to design a "people's car" (Volkswagen) with specific requirements:
- Carry a family of five
- Top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph)
- Air-cooled engine to prevent freezing
- Price under 1,000 Reichsmarks

This order resulted in the iconic Beetle. 🚗

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Onychophagia (nail biting) and onychotillomania (nail picking) are chronic nail conditions categorized as body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) disorders.


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On November 18, 1929, the French government approved the construction of the Maginot Line — a massive system of fortifications along its border with Germany, intended to prevent another invasion like in WWI.
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For over 20 years, the US has detained 39 Muslim men at Guantánamo Bay, with 27 never charged. The CIA operated secret "black sites" where at least 119 Muslim men were held and at least 39 tortured, without accountability. This system of unlawful detention, rendition, and abuse has cost billions, fueled propaganda by armed groups, and undermined global human rights.

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🐾The Humboldt marten is a rare Lazarus species — declared extinct in 1946 but rediscovered in 1996 after being missing for 50 years. Today, it remains critically endangered, surviving only in the old-growth forests of Northern California and Oregon.

If you have martens as home companions, drop your pictures and videos! 📸

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In ancient Greece, rhaphanidosis was a documented punishment for adultery 📜. Those convicted would have a radish root inserted into their anus as both physical penalty and public shaming .

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