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Until coffee gained popularity, beer was the breakfast beverage of choice in some parts of the United States.

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In 1980, Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.

There is a word that rhymes with orange! Sporange is a botany term that means “spore case.”

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Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive.

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An 800ft diameter asteroid passed within 500K miles of hitting earth in 1989

Homosexuality was still classified as an illness in Sweden in 1979. Swedes protested by calling in sick to work, claiming they felt gay.

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Certain species of planarians (a type of flatworm) have been gradually taught to run a maze. If you grind them up and feed them to a second batch of planarians, the second batch can run the maze on the first try.

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In Norse mythology, the dwarves created a magical chain to shackle the wolf Fenrir. It was made of: the sound of a cat’s footfall, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, bear’s sinews, fish’s breath and bird’s spittle. It is said that this creation is the reason why none of these exist.

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A cloud to ground bolt of lightning carries between 100 million and 1 billion volts. It can reach 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit – 3-4 times hotter than the surface of the sun!

10% of all the humans who have ever lived are alive in the world right now.

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