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Considered the greatest poet in Chinese literature, Li Bai dedicated to alcohol a good chunk of his poems and drunkeness due to his rampant alcoholism. Legend has that he drowned after drunkenly trying to embrace the moon’s reflection upon the river during a ferry-ride. Some of his classic poems on getting hammered are on the […]
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Contrary to what you might think, the cranium isn’t made out of just one bone. The human skull consists of twenty-two bones – eight cranial bones and fourteen facial skeleton bones. Except for the jaw, all of these bones are fused together by sutures (immovable joints), hence they tend to act as one.
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New Mexico license plates are the only ones with USA on them because Americans don’t know it’s part of their country.
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Eric Clapton holds the record for the most inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was first inducted as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992, then with Cream in 1993, and finally as a solo artist in 2000.
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New Jersey and Oregon are the only U.S. states that ban self-service gas stations. These laws were seemingly made to protect customers from deadly accidents, but their effectiveness is disputed.
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Pumpkins aren’t the first vegetable to have been carved. Long before carving pumpkins became popular, the Celtic people of Ireland carved turnips and lit them with embers to ward off evil spirits, a practise that’s the root of modern pumpkin carving today.
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The Statue of Liberty is a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. She bears a torch and a tablet, upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4 1776.
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Broccoli does not exist in nature. Rather, it is a human invention bred out of a wild cabbage plant. It was cultivated to have a specific taste and flavor that was more palatable to people.
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The elephant’s closest relative looks like a guinea pig. The rock hyrax is a small, furry, rat-like mammal that lives in rocky landscapes across sub-Saharan Africa and along the coast of the Arab peninsula. Elephants and rock hyraxes share common features like having two tusks and nails instead of claws, but their closest common ancestor […]
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‘Granny Smith’ apples come from Australia in 1868, where Maria Ann “Granny” Smith found a seedling growing near her property which bore light green apples. Apple growers began growing them for mass-market in the late 1960s, and since then it has become a popular variety worldwide.
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