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Where I personally check the credibility of each fact.

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Elmosolyodni - Hungarian, (v.) to slowly break out into a genuine smile when being overcome with emotions, like love or utter happiness.

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The United States of America is the only country with a tooth fairy who exchanged money for teeth.

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Most "milk teeth" traditions do indeed originate from the eastern hemisphere, but the concept of a winged humanoid trading money for teeth is originated in North American culture. 

"The tooth fairy grew slowly in popularity over the next few decades. The Tooth Fairy, a three-act playlet for children by Esther Watkins Arnold, was published in 1927. Lee Rogow's story "The Tooth Fairy" appeared in 1949 and seems to be the first children's story written about the tooth fairy. She became widely popular from the 1950s onward, with a veritable eruption of children's books, cartoons, jokes, etc., including more focus on children's dental hygiene."

Where as other older cultures had a mouse or rat (France and Spain) or disposed of the "milk teeth" in varies ways as to prevent bad luck or witchcraft.

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how fast does a giraffe go

A giraffe can run up to 35 miles per hour.

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Cualacino is the Italian word for the mark left on a table by a cold glass. 

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Dysania is the state of not wanting to get out of bed in the morning.

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Petrichor is the scent of rain on dry earth.

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The cardboard holder used to prevent you from burning your hand is called a zarf. The zarf originated from Arabic areas and were typically made of metal.

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The name of the infinity symbol is lemniscate.

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The glabella is the space between your eyebrows. 

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The ferrule is the metal band that wraps around the eraser and pencil.

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The lunule is the white, crescent-shaped part of a nail.

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Wattle is a material for making fences, walls, etc., consisting of rods or stakes interlaced with twigs or branches.

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High heels were used by ancient Egyptian butchers to wear them so they wouldn't step in the blood and animal bodies.

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While “nut” is in their name, peanuts are in fact legumes. Peanuts actually grow underground, as opposed to nuts like walnuts, almonds, etc. that grow on trees. Peanuts, along with beans and peas, belong to the single plant family, Leguminosae.

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Interestingly, the mare in nightmare has nothing to do with a female horse. Instead, it comes from Old English maere 'goblin, incubus.' The word was nigt-mare in 1300, and it referred to an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation. By 1350, it was nytmareand in 1440 it was nyghte mare. Mare 'goblin' is a cognate with Middle Dutch mare, maer'incubus,' Old High German mara, Middle High German mar, mare (dialectical modern German Mahr 'nightmlare'), and Old Icelandic mara 'incubus.' Mare comes from the Proto-Germanic word *maron.

Nightmare was used to describe 'a bad dream caused by an incubus' in the 16th century, and by 1829 it was used to describe 'a bad dream' in general.

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Hemitrichia serpula, more commonly known as "pretzel slime" is a slime mold species.

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The color of your eyes depends on your amount of melanin. Less melanin - blue or green, more melanin - brown or hazel