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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In 2012, there was a “Hug Me” Coca-Cola machine in Singapore, which gave you a can of coke each time you hug it.

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A zoo where visitors are caged.

Would you try this?

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In 17th century, Hawaiian Queen, Keopuolani, was considered so sacred that even touching her shadow was punishable by death.

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Gold is extremely difficult to destroy.

The reason why gold is so widely used in the jewellery, electronic and medical industries lies in the properties of this precious metal: it is virtually indestructible.

Gold has a melting point of 1064.18°C, it does not oxidise, does not grow mouldy, does not rust and can be recycled an infinite number of times. This means that the gold ring you wear every day may once have been the jewellery of someone who lived in a completely different century.

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In Dubai, artificial rain is regularly created through cloud seeding, as natural rainfall is rare

Rains are announced a day in advance

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Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark

However, the light is too weak for human eyes to see

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