Facts that will blow your mind

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The word "thug" comes from 1350s India from the Hindi word "thag," which means "deceiver" or "thief" or "swindler."  (Source)

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After a male octopuses breeds with a female he develops dementia. He then live the rest of his life confused, with apparently no knowledge of previous events.

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Wasps and bees can remember faces of people. (Source)

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When you sweat, your brain shrinks. When you drink your brain grows.(Source)

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10,000 light-years away from Earth, there is a huge cloud of alcohol. It is 1,000 times larger than the diameter of our solar system and contains enough alcohol to fill 400 trillion pints. To drink all of it, everyone on Earth would have to drink 300k pints each day, for 1 billion years.

Source: sciencealert

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Milton Hershey didn't have any children he and his wife opened an orphanage school and when he died, he left his entire fortune and the ownership of Hershey Chocolate Company in a trust for the children in the school. Still today 70% of the company is owned by Milton Hershey School.

source: wikipedia

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There is a village in India whose main export are men! This village prepares men to become bouncers for nightclubs and bars. They do so by having a 2-hour workout in the morning, followed by a 2-hour workout in the afternoon, in combination with high-protein food.

source: edition.cnn

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Swedes use the term 'Curling Parents' for overprotective parents who - as in the ice game - sweep out all trouble in front of their kids.

Source: nytimes

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In 2014, a three-year-old girl, Karina Chikitova, survived 11 days in the Siberian wilderness with only her dog for company. She ate wild berries and drank from a river, curling up next to her dog for warmth. She was saved when her dog went back to her village and guided rescuers to her.

source:  huffingtonpost.

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A man in Vermont, upset with local officials for denying a building permit for his proposed business, paid $4,000 to build a giant illuminated middle finger statue on his property. “If you don’t want to look at the building, look at this.” He said to the Development Review Board.

source: boston

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In 1999, Philip Morris attempted to convince the government of the Czech Republic that smoking was highly beneficial to the country, as more people would die earlier as a result, thus letting the government save millions on pensions, hospitals, and housing for elderly citizens.

source: latimes

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People in Japan are renting cars, but not to drive them anywhere. Car rental companies looked into it and discovered that people were using them to take naps, eat lunch, do work, change clothes, recharge cell phones, and store things (when storage lockers at train stations weren’t available).

source: asahi

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Your nose is always visible to you. Your mind ignores it through a process called Unconscious Selective Attention.

source:  scientificamerican

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A man was jailed and fined $1,500 in Oregon, U.S.A., for collecting rainwater because it is considered "property of the state.

Source: cnsnews

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1979 when the Skylab re-entry approached the San Francisco Examine offered $10,000 to the first person to deliver a piece to them within 72hrs knowing it wasn't heading toward the USA. A 17yr old Aussie collected a piece, jumped on a plane with no passport or luggage and collected his prize.

source: history

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The world's strongest coffee, A.K.A Death Wish Coffee, contains 200% more caffeine than the average cup of coffee. It is not recommended for people who want to sleep at some point in the next 3 days.

Source: deathwishcoffee

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In 2015, a Florida woman named Cheryl Treadway was held hostage by her boyfriend but she convinced him to let her order a pizza using the Pizza Hut app. In the space for special request, she wrote “please help, get 911 to me”. Police arrived at the location and she was released.

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