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Suicide is a crime in Islam. Suicide attempts may lead to prosecution.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The University of Texas study followed 474 diet soda drinkers for nearly ten years and found that their waists grew 70% more than the waists of non-drinkers.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Jellyfish are the ocean's most efficient swimmers, consuming 48% less oxygen than any other swimming animal.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the U.S., staged wrestling is called "pro wrestling" while real wrestling is called "amateur wrestling."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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At age 15, Jim Carrey quit school and became a janitor to support his family. They were living out of a van.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Hinduism accepts a man's right to commit suicide through fasting to death, called "Prayopavesa."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Men are 3 to 4 times more likely to attempt suicide and succeed than women.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The world record for crossing the Sahara Desert by bicycle was set in 2011 by a British man who made the 1,084-mile journey in 13 days and 5 hours.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Villagers in central China have long been using dinosaur bones as medicine, thinking they were from dragons.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Male brains, on average, have a total volume that is between 8% and 13% larger than that of females.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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New York City's Subway serves up to 6 million riders per day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms, including 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms, 514 doors and 760 windows.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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As a rule of thumb, darker and bitter beers have higher alcohol content.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The peak blood alcohol concentration level can be 3 times higher in people who drink with an empty stomach than in those who had a meal before drinking.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Saturn's moon Enceladus has ice volcanoes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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You can play "Sweet Child O' Mine" on your phone by dialing 185405*5 185405*5 285405*5 285405*5 485405*5 485405*5 185405*5 185405 *5 885405*5 775405*5.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Mwahahaha" and "lolz" were added to the Oxford English Dictionaries Online in 2012.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The ability of the brain to tell what's important from what's not is compromised by lack of sleep.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Amputation of hands or feet is the Islamic punishment for theft and highway robbery without homicide.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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At over 162.6 ha (401 acres), the Hindu temple Angkor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious structure in the world.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Scientists discovered in 2016 a massive coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon River, covering over 3,600 square miles.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Shanty towns were built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named "Hoovervilles" after President Hoover, widely blamed for the Depression.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Before 1977, tourists were allowed to climb the stones at Stonehenge, and until the early 20th century, tourists were given chisels to facilitate souvenir-taking.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Bathing was actively discouraged during the Black Death, which made the spread of the disease even worse.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Bill Gates and other investors have secured a 'doomsday seed vault' to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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During a mating bout, lions have sex 20 to 40 times a day for a couple of days.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Biological models of sex tend to view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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People who spend a lot of time on the internet are more likely to be depressed, lonely and mentally unstable, a study found.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Left-handed people have an increased cognitive flexibility, switching quickly between thinking about two concepts.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
