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[westhc]

The artichoke is technically a flower bud that has not yet bloomed.

 

[Marina2]

The Dancing Plague of 1518 had 400+ people inexplicably dancing for a month. many of them fell ill or died from the vigorous, mysterious dancing.

 

[mac63]

In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

 

[frizzy_tyger]

India is rightly called the Land of Spices. No country in the world produces as many varieties of spices as India.

 

[Marina2]

Pierre Brassau was a critically acclaimed artist that turned out to be a chimpanzee. The avant-garde artist was a four-year-old West African chimp from a Swedish zoo named Peter.

 

[westhc]

There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low in fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”

 

[Marina2]

Every ant you've seen in your life was probably female.

 

[mac63]

Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots. The maggots can jump up to five inches out of cheese while you’re eating it, so it’s a good idea to shield it with your hand to stop them jumping into your eyes.

 

[Marina2]

Cables at the bottom of the ocean transmit 99% of the world's data. Sharks have bitten these cables before; thus, the internet has suffered literal shark attacks.

 

[mac63]

The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus’ tail are known among paleontologists as the “thagomizer” — a term coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing.

 

[Marina2]

In 2015, the Grandpa Gang, a group of 6 men, the oldest being 76, committed the biggest bank robbery in English history. After climbing down an elevator shaft and drilling through a concrete wall they stole more than 200 million in cash and jewels.

 

[greasegizzard]

Powerful earthquakes can permanently shorten the length of Earth’s day, by moving the spin of the Earth’s axis. The 2011 Japan earthquake knocked 1.8 microseconds off our days. The 2004 Sumatra quake cost us around 6.8 microseconds.

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

 

[CountBoredom]

THERE ARE MORE THAN 1,200 WATER PARKS IN NORTH AMERICA.

 

[frizzy_tyger]

Staple ingredients of Indian cuisine like potato, tomato and chilli don't have Indian origin. They were brought to India by the Portuguese.

 

[SLM]

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

 

[greasegizzard]

The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.

Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

 

[CountBoredom]

A SEAHORSE CAN MOVE ITS EYES IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS—ALL THE BETTER TO SCAN THE WATER FOR FOOD AND PREDATORS.

 

[liblue1]

The town of Calma, Chile in the Atacama Desert has never had rain......

 

[westhc]

As early as 1935 up until the introduction of solid core balls, some golf ball engineers used liquid cores in balls that would otherwise have too much spin. Many of those liquid filled golf balls were filled with real honey.

 

[CountBoredom]

TO COOK AN EGG, A SIDEWALK NEEDS TO BE 158°F.