The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.

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A Group of owls is called a Parliament.

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Crickets have ears on their front legs. Located just below the knees, their ears are among the smallest in the animal kingdom.

In addition to crickets, grasshoppers and locusts also have ears on their legs.

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Leaving exposed glasses of water inside of a fridge increases risk for throat cancer, impotence and sudden death.

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In Cluj, Romania, you can pay for your bus ticket by doing 20 squats.

Disabled and elderly people get a ride for free.

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A drawing of a 9-year-old Turkish boy trying to show what his mother, stepfather, and other adults did to him and his younger sister.

The children's parents were arrested on charges of sexual abuse. Their trial is ongoing.

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The Burj Khalifa in Dubai has no sewage system - so trucks have to pump out poo every day.

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In 1962 there was a bill proposed to change the name of Philippines to Malaysia but the then newly independent neighbouring country took the name before the bill was passed.

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Psychology says the highest form of self-acceptance is listening to a playback of your recorded voice without cringing.

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During the Black Death, incoming ships were forced to wait for 40 days to prevent possible infection. The Italian word for 40, “quaranta”, is where we get the word “quarantine.” from.

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If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. A Human farts an average of 14 times a day, releasing around 1/2 litre of gas.

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Rolls Royce uses the leather of 15 to 18 Bulls per car, raised in cold climates to prevent marks from insect bites.

Cows aren't used because they might have stretch marks from pregnancies.

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Lucy the chimpanzee knew 140 words, drank gin and watched porn.

Lucy was a chimpanzee who was raised by psychotherapists, and was born in 1964 and died in 1987, all her life she was treated as a human.

Monkey dressed, together with people Lucy sat at the dinner table and used cutlery, read magazines. The intelligent chimpanzee mastered sign language, learning 140 words.

The Bohemian life for her began when she got drunk on gin, started to bully the cat, flip through Playboy, and masturbate with a vacuum cleaner.

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The World wastes about 1 billion metric tons of food each year.

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The only reason indigo was included in the ROYGBIV rainbow spectrum was because Sir Isaac Newton considered 7 a sacred number and didn't want the rainbow to be "unsacred."

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Hurricanes were named only after females because men often considered women unpredictable, vengeful, or generally stormy.

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