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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If an app that shouldn't need the internet doesn't work with Airplane Mode turned on, it's sending information to its creator(s) to spy on you.

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Luxury car brands such as Audi and Mercedes Benz have to tweak their horns to be louder and more durable before the launch of a model in India simply because their standard horns cannot cope with the level of honking that occurs on Indian roads.

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If you want to terminate the urge to cry, simply drink a glass of water, this will greatly reduce your brains urge to cry.

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Crab mentality or crab theory refers to the way of thinking that can be best described by the phrase, "if I can't have it neither can you:" The metaphor comes from a pattern of behavior seen in crabs when a large number of them are trapped in a bucket. In this scenario, despite being able to escape on their own, the crabs grab each other and undermine the other's efforts, making sure of the group's collective demise.

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Male infertility tests are performed by seeing if a man's sperm can penetrate the egg of a hamster.

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