Aphantasia - this is a condition that blocks the mind’s eye, it affects 2-5% of people globally and reduces their ability to remember the past, imagine the future, and even dream.

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There are snakes with two heads, which compete with each other for food.

The fact that some snakes are born with two heads is pretty incredible as is, but what about the added detail that these heads are actually two distinct parts that both work with one another and also see each other as competition?

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Smoking dead scorpions to get high is a practice in Pakistan. Users crush the scorpions into powder and mix with tobacco or hash.

Supposedly the high lasts for almost 10 hours. The first six hours are painful, as the body adjusts to the high. Slowly, the feeling eases into enjoyment and everything appears like it is dancing.

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In 1849, enslaved American Henry Brown boxed himself up and mailed himself to a state where slavery was illegal. He left the box a free man.

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Smarter people are more likely to underestimate themselves, while dumber people are more likely to believe they're brilliant

It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Crows in captivity can learn to speak better than parrots.

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A Newborn baby kangaroo can fit in a teaspoon.

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A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time.

Though it varies depending on what it's measuring, when used in a scientific or mathematic context, a jiffy is typically considered to be 0.01 seconds, or 10 milliseconds.

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It's not a photoshop, it's an Eudin ear. An edible mushroom popular in Chinese cooking

Would you try it?

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There is a museum of bad art.

Located in Somerville, Massachusetts, the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) houses a permanent collection of more than 700 pieces that its website says "range from the work of talented artists that have gone awry to works of exuberant, although crude, execution by artists barely in control of the brush. What they all have in common is a special quality that sets them apart in one way or another from the merely incompetent."

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What is the most expensive painting to be sold at auction?

Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450.3 million.

Leonardo da Vinci's finished work is quite rare, so when his portrait of Jesus Christ, Salvator Mundi, went to auction in 2017 at Christie's in New York, it sold for a staggering $450.3 million.

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Life expectancy and height are inversely correlated

Studies suggest that men under 5'9" live on average 4.95 years longer than men over 5'9"

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