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Fun Fact: The singular they literally predates Modern English. (image: "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffery Chaucer, highlight mine)

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Fun Fact: On January 9, 1979, U.S. president Jimmy Carter's brother Billy, who was tasked with hosting a Libyan diplomat arriving at the Atlanta airport, urinated on the runway in full view of said diplomat, the press, and many others.

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Fun Fact: In 600 CE, Pope Gregory I declared that rabbit fetuses were fish so they could be eaten during Lent.

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Fun Fact: Removing the front legs of fruit flies makes them bisexual.

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Fun Fact: Kurt Vonnegut ran America's first Saab dealership.

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Fun Fact: India's Mars probe cost around 25% less than the film Gravity.

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Fun Fact: Bluetooth is named after King Harold "Bluetooth" Gormsson of Norway who reigned around 970 CE. The Bluetooth logo consists of the Nordic runes for his initials H and B.

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Fun Fact: There hasn't been a case of polio reported in the entire continent of Africa since August!

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On this episode Beaker and Klopfenpop chat about the human body among other things. Including new segments "Let's do Science," and "Something You Like Is Probably Racist." Itunes Stitcher Po...

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Fun Fact: Peach Melba and Melba toast are named after the same person.

Fun Fact: Pandas urinate while doing handstands to mark their territory. The higher the pee, the more dominant they are perceived to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27hN7M8oc5Y

Fun Fact: The message of the song "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" is roughly "I hate snow, but sex sure is great."

Fun Fact: The Latin phrase “e pluribus unum,” which appears on all U.S. currency and our Great Seal, originated in a first century poem attributed to Virgil wherein it is used to describe the resulting color at the end of a detailed recipe for salad dressing.

Fun Fact: Phoberomys pattersoni is an extinct Venezuelan mammal that was pretty much a guinea pig the size of a cow. It is thought to have weighed around fourteen hundred times as much as the average modern guinea pig.

Fun Fact: Known as “uni” in Japanese cuisine, “ricci” to Italians, and “kina” to the Maori, raw sea urchin gonads are—along with chocolate—one of the number one culinary sources of a cannabinoid called anandamide, “the bliss molecule.”

Fun Fact: "Little Drummer Boy" is about a child banging on a drum in the same room as a baby in the middle of the night just after it was born...right outside a fully occupied inn.

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Fun Fact: Corn Flakes were invented with the aim of being boring enough to discourage masturbation.

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