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Did You Know

Bed bugs are eusocial creatures like ants, bees, and mole-rats, and if you find and kill the queen the colony will quickly die out

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English sumptuary laws that govern permissible clothing during the Medieval and Tudor periods had laws about the proper folding of clothes.

To this day there are, largely unenforced, laws about how laundry is to be dried, folded, and stored with the common "fold in half and half again" method being explicitly forbidden.

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There is a black market specifically for cattle

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The first example of a 'paperclip' predates paper by over 1000 years and was originally created to hold medicinal leaves together

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Calling someone a chicken for being cowardly is not because chickens are scared easily but because of the old English word "Cicen" which means 'to be afraid'

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Oscar wilde coined the term "love at first sight" when referring to every gentleman he had ever met

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Interesting fact...

Leaving the house without a hat was made illegal in England in 1574 because of the alarming rise in head lice after it became popular to attend Shakespeare's plays in very close proximity to each other

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Whales, though completely colour-blind, dream in vivid colours

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Marvel's first draft of Spider Man was called Doctor Arachnid and had powers that included trapping criminals in webs, paralysing with a sting, and draining life energy from enemies. This version was deemed to be too gory for Peter Parker's storyline and was cut.

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It's an urban myth that santa is red because of coca cola, it's actually because in the original tale Sinta Klaus was gored by a boar, staining the snow and his white clothing scarlet

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Celebrities who get hired under stage names are required to get a second birth certificate so they can sign legally binding contracts

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More pigeons have received medals for bravery during wartime than humans

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The rose is considered the flower of love because it's name is Eros backwards

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Candles on romantic dinner tables were traditionally used to prevent prospective lovers from leaning over to steal a kiss before they were married

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If you want to kiss you must brave the FIRE

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Serious Response:  Holy shit that’s fucked up.

Snark Response:  And now we know how the candlewax fetish developed.

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Funnily enough that IS how the fetish started. Henry VIII stated that large amounts of hot wax would only deepen his lust for Katherine Parr

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Ducks don't actually have legs, they just have elongated ankles

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Following the first release of sesame Street elmo was banned by the Catholic Church because they saw him as a satanic symbol being worshipped as an idol

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One teaspoon of semen has more calories in than a can of full fat coke

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If you’re on a diet, try swallowing curdled low fat milk instead for a similar effect 👍

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Or just slap your face with a handful of body temperature Greek yoghurt