Listening to music during training increases performance by 20%. This effect can be compared to doping.

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Vikings sold narwhal tusks as unicorn horns for centuries during medieval times, cementing European belief in unicorns and leading to the characteristic portrayal of unicorns having long, spiraling horns.

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🏔 In Switzerland, there is a hotel located at the highest point in Europe — at the summit of the Matterhorn.

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Glass has been recycled for almost 3,000 years. It never wears out as a raw material. Just one recycled clear glass bottle saves enough energy from the manufacturing process to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

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Every 98 minutes, a new word is created.

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Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder: between 5% and 20% eventually die from it.

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Leonardo DiCaprio's first name was decided when his mother was pregnant, looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a gallery in Florence, and he kicked for the first time.

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🍊 Regular consumption of orange juice reduces the likelihood of developing osteoporosis and serves as a preventive measure against obesity.

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If humans were capable of hearing frequencies lower than 20 Hz, we would hear our muscles moving.

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You won't be able to outrun a bear; its speed can reach up to 50 km/h.

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The creator of Wonder Woman, William Marston, was a psychologist who was famous for inventing the lie detector. He was also a BDSM enthusiast and a firm believer in the superiority of women, stating that Wonder Woman was an allegory for the type of woman he believed should run the world.

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There is a rare blood group known as ‘h/h’ or ‘Oh’ which was first discovered in 1952 at Mumbai, India (Formerly Bombay), hence christening another name ‘Bombay Blood Group’. This blood is so rare that only 4 in a million would have it globally; however, every 1 in 10,000 have it in Bombay.

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