The longest rain on earth lasted 247 days on one of the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai.

It began on August 27, 1993, and dropped its last drop only on April 30, 1994.

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There is a disease nicknamed Stone man syndrome that converts damaged tissue to bones. Over the course of many years, this leads to the victim becoming more and more like a statue.

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Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese spy, posed as a woman and had a 20-year intimate relationship with a French ambassador to steal secrets. He even acquired a child and persuaded the diplomat that it was his.

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Pule cheese is the world’s most expensive cheese and it comes from the milk of Balkan donkeys from Serbia. It’s valued at $1300 per kg ($600 per pound); it’s so expensive because there are only ~100 jennies (female donkeys) that are milked for pule-making. It takes 25 litres of milk to create 1 kg of cheese.

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Lightning strikes the Earth about 44 times every second!

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Nature adapting! To prevent drying out in the hot sun of the dry season, the giant monkey frog secretes a form of organic "sun screen" & applies it to its body. 🐸☀️

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Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.

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The world’s oldest surviving bank is “Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena,” which was founded in 1472 and is currently Italy’s 3rd largest bank.

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The world's largest living organism isn't an animal, but a fungus! This massive fungus covers over 2,300 acres of forest in Oregon.

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Megatherium americanum is an elephant-sized sloth native to South America that existed and died out about 12,000 years ago. It was one of the largest land mammals, measuring up to 6 metres (20 feet) and weighing an average of 4 tonnes.

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Cashew fruits are called "apples", and what we consume as food are the seeds of cashew apples.

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A bite from a common tick can cause a permanent anaphylactic meat and milk allergy in people.

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One way to check the authenticity of a diamond is to breathe on it.

• Condensation will appear on a fake, but not on a diamond.

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Marina Chapman, a Colombian woman, was raised by Capuchin monkeys for five years after being kidnapped and abandoned in the bush as a youngster. She learnt to climb trees and catch birds and rabbits using her bare hands. She lived as a monkey until she was found by hunters.

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About 75 percent of the world's food comes from just 12 plants and 5 animal species. Almost half of our plant-derived calories come from just three foods: wheat, corn and rice. While estimates vary, it is believed that there are over 30,000 edible plants, and we only eat 150 of them.

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Swiss-American socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein has had extensive plastic surgery to her face over the years in order to elicit a more catlike look. Wildenstein is rumored to have spent $4 million on plastic surgery, apparently done to please her husband, who loved big cats.

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Potato poisoning can cause paralysis, coma, and hallucinations for days. If left untreated, also death.

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There is a bird named Honeyguide, which guides humans to beehives, so that they can feast on the bee larvae after humans takes the honey.

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