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The inventor of Sherlock Holmes also solved crimes in real life.

In the early 1900s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle noticed inconsistencies in the closed cases of 2 men he believed to be falsely accused. He investigated the cases, solved them both, paid for some of the court costs, got them released from prison, and the publicity from his efforts led to the UK’s creation of an official Court of Appeals.

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Ancient Persian engineers made their own freezers that kept ice cold - even during desert summers. By 400 BCE, they had perfected the ‘yakhchal,’ which are made of thick, heat-resistant materials.

They had vents to funnel breezes to an underground storage area and push warm air out the top, and ice could be brought in during winter to use for making chilled treats in the summer.

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People with anxiety can be good to have around in an emergency.

Since anxious people are often waiting for something to go wrong, they’re also more vigilant about monitoring their surroundings.

This makes them faster at detecting and reacting to threats, and they’re much more likely to warn others without delay.

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The Poison Garden is a public garden full of deadly plants. When the Duchess of Northumberland took over the English garden in 1995, she wanted to fill it with something different that would interest children, who “don’t care that aspirin comes from a bark of a tree. What’s really interesting is to know how a plant kills you, and how the patient dies, and what you feel like before you die.” Source

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The Macrauchaneia was a prehistoric mammal with a llama’s neck, rhino feet, a horse’s body, and a tapir-like trunk - and scientists have been trying to figure out what it actually is since 1834. New technology shows it did share a common ancestor with horses, rhinos, and tapirs, but its lineage split off 60 million years ago, and it ended up being a really weird hybrid of other weird hybrids. Source Source 2 Source 3

New research places Macrauchenia in the same group as this tapir.

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Your hair and fingernails don’t keep growing after you die. Dead bodies dehydrate over time, which causes the skin to shrink away from the nails and hair follicles. Because of this, they may appear to protrude more from the skin, but they haven’t actually grown. Source Source 2

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Cruise ships have morgues on board. Roughly 200 people die on cruises each year, especially on those that carry a lot of seniors, so most ships have a small morgue and are prepared to store up to 10 bodies. Source

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If you’re trying to figure out whether someone has a fake smile, look at their eyes. When you have a genuine smile, the corners of your mouth upturn, your cheeks raise, and the skin around your eyes crinkles. Known as the ‘Duchenne smile’, it happens involuntarily when you’re truly happy about something- so a smile without eye crinkles is a good indicator that someone was forcing it. Source Source 2 Source 3