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University of Illinois Dept of Landscape Architecture found high school students perform better on tests if they are in a classroom with a view of a green landscape, rather than a windowless room. (source)

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Reindeer antlers sprayed with reflective paint to reduce traffic accidents in Lapland, Finland. (source)

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Keeper at a tortoise breeding/care center noticed a baby having trouble hatching, found twin toirtoises inside the egg. (source)

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A man once made his own chicken sandwich completely from scratch - He grew his own crops, slaughtered a chicken and boiled ocean saltwater for sea salt. In the end it cost him over $1000 and half a year. He didn’t like the taste. source

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The world’s oldest hotel is in Japan. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan hotel in Yamanashi has been operating since 705 CE and has been run by the same family for 52 generations. source

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Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to NASA asking how she could become an astronaut. They responded by telling her girls could not become astronauts. She then decided to pursue politics to help break gender barriers. (source)

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The fresh, salty smell of beach air is actually the smell of rotting seaweed. (source)

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Broken Heart Syndrome is a real medical condition brought on by tragedy or shock, and it feels like a heart attack. A surge of stress hormones causes a temporary disruption in your heart is normal pumping function, giving you chest pain and shortness of breath. (source)

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We are born afraid of only two things – falling and loud noises. All our other fears are learned an influenced by our environments and cultures. source

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In 1996, a 3-year-old boy who fell into a zoo enclosure was saved by a gorilla. With her own baby on her back, the gorilla (named Binti Jua) picked up the unconscious boy, protected him from the other animals and cradled him in her arms until he was rescued. source

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Just after her husband of 67 years died, Norma was diagnosed with cancer. Instead of getting treatment, she told her doctor, ‘I’m 90 years old, I’m hitting the road,’ and took an indefinite road trip across the US with her retired son and his wife. (source)

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In the 1930s two psychologists adopted a baby chimp and tried to raise her as their child alongside their real infant son Donald to see if this caused the chimp to learn human behavior. They stopped the experiment after 9 months because their son actually started behaving more like a chimp. -Source

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A lack of friends carries a higher risk of death than obesity and is the equivalent health risk of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. source

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Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang could not get an academic job upon graduating, having to work as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He later went on to solve a math problem that had been unsolved for 150 years and won a MacArthur Genius Grant. (source)

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Tornadoes are invisible. After all, they’re just moving air, right? The only reason you can see them is because of the water droplets that form inside the funnel cloud, and the dirt and debris they pick up once they touch ground. (source)

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On May 8th, 2016, Germany’s solar, wind, hydro, and biomass plants generated so much energy, power prices actually went negative. source

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Sand from the Sahara is blown by the wind all the way to the Amazon, recharging its minerals. The desert literally fertilizes the rainforest. (source)