Slow loris (pictured above) is the world’s only known venomous primate. It sucks the venom from a patch in its elbow before giving a lethal venomous bite.

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There is a parasitic barnacle that will infect a crab, castrate the males, make them think they’re female, and force them to carry around the barnacle’s brood as if it is their own.

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In Ancient Greece, people used to go to the gym naked — the word ‘gymnasium’ means “school for naked exercise”.

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Queen Victoria was the first person to wear white to her wedding, which started it all, Before that women used to wear their best clothes to their wedding.

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Women who have mostly male friends stay in a good mood more often.

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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

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A suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.

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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

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Most people use Google just to understand if they spelled a word correctly.

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A 2014 study found that men were only able to listen to their partners for about six minutes before tuning them out.

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​​​​The single strong fixing that holds the body of a helicopter to its rotor is nicknamed the ‘Jesus nut’ because if the nut fails, Jesus is your only hope.

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In a bizarre case of burglary, at a government officers home in Madhya Pradesh, an enraged thief left a note, as he couldnt find enough cash and valuable to steal.

The note left by the burglar read as "don't put a lock if you dont have money".

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China tried to build a city that was a replica of Paris, right down to the replica of Eiffel Tower, but it’s now a ghost town.

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In 2007, a man in Florida woke up with a severe headache. When he went to the hospital they found a bullet in his head. It turned out that his wife had shot him in the head while he was sleeping.


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There was an Iranian man who lived in an airport for 17 years due to failing to present a passport to British immigration officials.

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Michael Jackson requested his wine be served in Diet Coke cans during flights, because he didn't want his kids to see him drinking alcohol.

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The photo was taken in March 1945 during the Battle of Iwo Jima - an American soldier offers a smoke to a Japanese soldier. Interestingly, the Japanese soldier had been lying with a grenade for 1.5 days, waiting for the Americans, but missed. The cigarette was given to him in exchange for surrendering.

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Table tennis emerged among the elite society of England in the 1880s.

They used books as a net.

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The CIA reads up to 5 million tweets a day.

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