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The way Americans speak pre-dates the way English speak. This is because “rhotic speech” spoken in America originally came from England, later the wealthy in order to be different adopted a soft “r”, “win-tuh” instead of “win-terr”. It was “posh” to sound like that so everyone else copied them.
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A brain syndrome called mirrored touch synaesthesia causes people to physically feel what other people are feeling just by looking at them. For example, a person can look at a dog and fee fur texture on his palms, this is an involuntary response. Brain automatically fills in what it thinks the dog feels like without […]
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A brain syndrome called mirrored touch synaesthesia causes people to physically feel what other people are feeling just by looking at them. For example, a person can look at a dog and fee fur texture on his palms, this is an involuntary response. Brain automatically fills in what it thinks the dog feels like without […]
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Single men 18 to 55 only change their bed sheets an average of four times a year. Further, the average single guy owns just one set of sheets and can sweat up to a liter a night and sheds thousands of dead skin cells.
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Single men 18 to 55 only change their bed sheets an average of four times a year. Further, the average single guy owns just one set of sheets and can sweat up to a liter a night and sheds thousands of dead skin cells.
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Key Limes were considered a weed until The Great Freeze of 1894–95 destroyed Florida’s lemon groves. Farmers replanted “Mexican” limes and they became known as “Florida Key Limes, a beloved regional crop”.
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Japan converts footsteps into renewable energy in Tokyo train stations and use it to power billboards around the city, using special floor boards that turn vibration into energy.
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Helen Keller was accepted to Harvard in 1900. Mark Twain introduced her to Standard Oil magnate, Henry Rogers, who paid for her education. And in 1904, she became the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree.
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The inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is completely empty.
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Kit Kats in Japan are associated with the phrase Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ), translated as “You will surely win”, and thus a good luck charm for students. Katsudon (pork cutlet rice bowl) is also known as a good luck food, so people would eat it the night before important events like exams, interviews, etc.
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