Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that he would be killed

After President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, King said to his wife, "This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society"

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The ancient Greeks made dildos out of bread.

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The Average adult, under age 45, sends and receives 85+ texts a day.

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Force-closing unused apps on your phone doesn't save your battery but instead, causes your phone to work harder when you open them again; decreasing your battery life

You should only force-close apps when they're unresponsive

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The Main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch a year. When it was designed engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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An hour and a half of sweating can
temporarily shrink the brain as much as one year of aging.

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The directors of Despicable me actually wrote a language for the gibberish the minions speak throughout the film. Each word has a meaning.

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Anthony Ervin, a swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics, retired at 22, began abusing drugs, at one point being hardly able to get off a sofa for days on end. But in 2011, he got back into swimming. At 2016 Rio Olympics at age 35, he became the oldest swimmer to ever win an individual Olympic gold medal.

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In 2001, a Florida man wrestled a shark out of the water to recover his nephew's arm that had been bitten off

Doctors managed to successfully re-attach it

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The Driest Place On Earth Is In Antarctica And Hasn't Experienced Rain In 2 Million Years.

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Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button. Facebook engineer Andrew Bosworth said that he and other engineers were enthusiastic about the “Awesome” button, but that the idea was ultimately vetoed by Zuckerberg in 2007. The site eventually settled on the “Like” button, a decision that Bosworth said was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception.

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The Iroquois have an annual dream-sharing festival in which they act out their dreams.

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In Ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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This Gorgeous kitty has sectoral heterochromia, so her irises have 2 different colors.

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About 5% of all Association Football (Soccer) injuries occur during celebrations, after scoring a goal.

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The Ancient Greeks used to go to the gym naked as a tribute to the gods

The word 'gymnasium' originates from a Greek word meaning "school for naked exercise"

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Proper Perfume Application

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