There is a company that sells mirrors that make people look 10 pounds thinner. Overall, the mirrors have contributed to 54% of total sales for retailers that use it.

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BREAKING: Pele has been moved to End-of-Life care after he stopped responding to Chemotherapy.

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There is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman who is the Mayor, Bartender, and Librarian.

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Ayam Cemani is an uncommon and relatively modern breed of chicken from Indonesia.

They have a dominant gene that causes hyperpigmentation, making the chicken entirely black, including feathers, beak, and internal organs.

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There are more trees on earth than there are stars in the Milk Way Galaxy.

While the Milk Way boasts 100 billion stars, Earth tops that numbers with its 3 trillion trees.

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The Spanish national anthem has no words.

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It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

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To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates.

The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.

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Basically anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before being melted.

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The oldest person ever documented, Jeanne Calment, smoked for 100 years, drank a daily glass of wine, and ate two pounds of chocolate every week. She died aged 122, outliving both her daughter and her daughter's son.

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In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages for their patients.

Spider webs supposedly have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection.

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Phobophobia, this is a phobia defined as the fear of fear, or fear of developing a phobia.

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Up until 1956, French children attending school were served wine on their lunch breaks. Each pupil was ennoscriptd to 4 glasses (125ml) a day.

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A Woman who lost her wedding ring found it 16 years later on a carrot in her garden.

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In Singapore, it’s a crime to not flush a toilet after you've used it.

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Heteropaternal Superfecundation - This is when twins are conceived with sperm from two different men. One way this can occur is when the sperm survives for a few days inside the female reproductive tract.

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In Malaysia, there is a restaurant with a discount system based on how thin you are.

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In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.

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In 2017, a Firefighter battled through a barn fire to rescue a litter of piglets from the blaze.

To show his appreciation, the farmer sent the firefighter a pack of sausages, made from the piglets that he saved.

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Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world.

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