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There is a book called “Becoming Batman published in 2008: The Possibility of a Superhero” written by a neuroscientist, which covers in detail how much an ordinary person would need to train and adapt to become Batman.
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
On average, a honey bee produces 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey over the course of its life. To put that into perspective, two tablespoons of honey would be enough to fuel a bee’s entire flight around the world.
In 2003, a rather unique gastropod was described from a hydrothermal vent in the Indian Ocean. What caught scientists attention was not the shell, a rather plain marginally ribbed shell, but a series of armor plates covering the soft parts we often refer to as the foot. Each of these scales, 1/3 an inch long, posses a core of pedal tissue lined with a mineralized layer of conchiolin embedded with iron sulfide granules, the stuff of fools’s gold. This is the only known animal to use iron sulfide as skeletal material.
Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
The smallest flightless bird is the Island Rail (Atlantisia rogersi). This tiny bird lives on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha in the Atlantic Ocean and is about the same size as a hen chick.
A woman who was married for 25 years quickly divorced her husband without telling him she'd just won $1.3 million in the lottery. When he found out and sued her she was forced to pay him all of her winnings.
There is a town in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over almost every winter.
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