1. Even after extinction, the Dodo is still the national animal of Mauritius.
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  2. Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton invented underwater spectacles so he could read in the bath.
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  3. After a meal, a Burmese python's heart grows by 40%.
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  4. Drinking wine before a meal makes you eat 25% more.
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  5. A coal-fired power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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  6. The FBI started compiling a file on Sacha Baron Cohen while he was filming 'Borat' after receiving numerous complaints about a strange man travelling around the country in an ice cream truck.
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  7. In 1932, Thomas Earl, a zookeeper at the Cleveland Brookside Zoo, was fired from his job, then mauled by a brown bear and mistakenly shot by police.
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  8. An unborn baby can taste what its mother is eating and develop a preference for the foods that she eats.
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  9. Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica.
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  10. Ancient Egyptians used to wear hair extensions.
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  11. The U.S. could feed 800 million people with the grain used to feed the country's livestock.
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  12. Roman Emperor Tiberius banned kissing, believing it caused the spread of a fungal disease called mentagra (inflamed hair follicles).
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  13. Albert Einstein walked 3 miles a day while Darwin went for three 45-minute walks every day.
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  14. The most prolific mathematician of the 20th Century, Paul Erdos, used amphetamine to fuel 20-hour number benders.
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  15. Celebrated inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla swore by toe exercises – every night, he'd repeatedly ‘squish' his toes, 100 times for each foot.
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  16. After a waitress at a pizzeria helped a customer choose the numbers for a winning lottery ticket in 1984, he 'tipped' her $3,000,000, half of his prize money.
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  17. The London Bridge built in the 1830s was dismantled in 1967 and relocated to Arizona.
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  18. The South Pacific island of Vanuatu banned the imports of western junk food as a way to combat future health problems.
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  19. 1% to 3% of the world population are short sleepers, people who live happily on just a few hours of sleep per night.
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  20. Stealing someone else's idea without realizing you've done so is called "kleptomnesia."
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  21. An estimated 50-80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface and the oceans contain 99% of the living space on the planet.
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  22. Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Bela Lugosi and Igor Stravinsky were all born in the same year: 1882.
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  23. The Ottoman Empire's Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after one of them slept with another man.
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  24. Afghanistan has been invaded by Greek, Arab, Mongol, Mughal, Persian, British, Sikh and Soviet forces. No invader has been able to control all of its regions at the same time.
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  25. Plato was originally called Aristocles.
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  26. Upon opening his crypt in 2017, Salvador Dalí's famous moustache remained in a perfect state after 28 years.
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  27. The word "Afghanistanism", which means focusing on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring local issues, was first used in 1948.
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  28. Charles Darwin was the first to put wheels on an office chair, creating the modern office chair.
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  29. The highest accuracy calculations at NASA use just 15 decimals of Pi.
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  30. The artist formerly known as Prince was obsessed with lavender and that's how you knew he was entering a room: you would smell the lavender.
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