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If you rub fresh garlic on the soles of your feet, about an hour later you can actually taste the garlic. This is because the molecule that causes garlic’s smell, allicin, is small enough to penetrate the skin and blood vessels, where it goes all the way up to your mouth and nose.
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There are fossils of marine life found on top of Himalayan mountains.
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John Harvey Kellogg wrote a book about abstinence, 156 pages of which being written on his own honeymoon.
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Anti-littering legislation date back to ancient Greece, a marker on the island of Paros has the inscription “whoever drops their litter on the street owes 51 drachmae to whoever wishes to claim them”. In modernity cigarette butts are the most littered item, with 4.5 trillion discarded each year.
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Kris Kristofferson went into music after studying at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He moved to Nashville and made ends meet as a helicopter pilot. After trying unsuccessfully to get Johnny Cash to hear some of his songs, he finally got Cash’s attention by landing a helicopter on his lawn.
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The oldest evidence of a kissing-type behaviour comes from Hindu Vedic Sanskrit texts from over 3,500 years ago. Kissing was described as inhaling each other’s soul.
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As a prank, a man once climbed Mount Hood in the middle of the night and surreptitiously left a morning newspaper and a quart of milk for his friends, who were spending the night on the summit.
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Japan has so many “ghost houses” that they are commonly given away at low/no-cost.
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The term “mad hatter” originated in the 18th century when hat makers were poisoned by the mercury used in the process of turning animal fur into felt. Workers would dip their fingers of bowls of mercuric oxide and rub and smear it into the beaver fur used especially in men’s (top) hats. They went “mad” […]
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Water has joined gold, oil and other commodities that are traded on Wall Street as worries about the uncertainty of its availability in the future rises.
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