1. Female blanket octopuses can be 40,000 times more massive than the male, it's the largest sex size discrepancy in the animal kingdom.
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  2. Centipedes, latin for "a hundred feets," can't have exactly 100 legs. They always have an odd number of pairs of legs.
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  3. 1 out of every 200 people have an extra rib.
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  4. Birds can physically fart but never really need to.
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  5. Sharks have survived 5 mass extinctions.
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  6. Men's Testicles hang between the legs to keep cool because sperm dies at body temperature.
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  7. Only once in history has one submarine deliberately sunk another submerged submarine.
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  8. Texas has sued the federal government more than 40 times in this century.
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  9. Depression can cause you to dream up to 3 to 4 times more than you normally would.
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  10. In the 13th century, some people in Norway would baptize their children with beer.
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  11. The wombat's poop is cubic.
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  12. Duct tape was originally called "duck" tape.
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  13. In the 1800s, people bought mummies and held "mummy unwrapping" parties.
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  14. 50% of the caffeine you've consumed may be cleared from your body within 5 hours, but it will take over a day to fully eliminate it from your system.
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  15. Ostrich kicks can kill a human and even a lion.
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  16. The vice presidency of the U.S. has been vacant due to resignation or death a total of 37 years and 290 days, about a fifth of the time.
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  17. The tower where Big Ben is located is officially known as "Elizabeth Tower." It was completed in 1859.
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  18. 63% of Americans consider their pets to be family members while 1% consider their pets to be property.
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  19. A Liverpool fan killed himself when his team was 3-0 down in the 2005 Champions League final's first half. They came back to win the game in the second half.
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  20. The Humr people of Sudan consume Umm Nyolokh, a drink made from the liver and bone marrow of giraffes believed to contain traces of DMT and other psychoactive components.
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  21. 1 in 10 known species in the world
    lives in the Amazon Rainforest.
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  22. Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs made slaves fan their wine all night to cool it down.
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  23. Toddlers Have Shot More People in the U.S. Than Muslim Terrorists in 2016.
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  24. The odds of a coin flip are not 50-50, but actually 51-49. It will most likely land facing the same direction as it started.
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  25. Just 9 months after his inauguration, Barack Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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  26. Twitter has 310 million monthly active users, almost the same as the U.S. population.
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  27. Since 1900, there have been an average of 18 major earthquakes and one great earthquake per year.
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  28. Before the Berlin Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans defected from their country.
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  29. Although Autism is generally assumed to be lifelong, there's evidence that between 3% and 25% of affected people eventually recover, a 2008 study found.
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  30. About 50% of Asians have trouble metabolizing alcohol due to a missing liver enzyme needed to process it.
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