The Movie Gravity was more expensive than the Indian Mars mission.

The entire mission cost $74 million. As Narenda Modi pointed out during a June visit to an Indian rocket facility, that's less than it cost to make the movie Gravity (the film's budget was about $100 million). It is, by far, the cheapest successful interplanetary mission ever carried out.

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Insurance companies buy insurance for themselves called reinsurance, which covers them for when they have to payout on an insurance policy they have issued.

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The longest pregnancy in humans on record is 375 days (12.5 months).

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Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.

Earrings may have given pirates a bit of fashionable flair, but the accessories weren't worn simply for stylish reasons. Some pirates thought earrings could improve eyesight and ward off seasickness.

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Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

Oysters are a protandric species, which means that they don't remain male or female over the course of their lifetime. Instead, they change genders. With reproductive organs that contain both eggs and sperm, oysters first release sperm when they mature before switching over to eggs once they get a little older.

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Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in China as a delicacy. Even though most Chinese people don't eat cats or dogs, as many as four million cats a year are estimated to be killed for the meat trade.

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Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for over 27 years.

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In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two countries, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

It was the only (mostly) non-violent split of an ex-Eastern Bloc nation, so peaceful it was called the "Velvet Divorce".

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Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf.

Everything about life is slow for these sleepy mammals. Most sloths will only have a bowel movement once a week, and it can take them up to 30 days to completely digest a single leaf.

For comparison, it takes the average human 12 to 48 hours to ingest, digest, and eliminate waste from food.

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Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with his feces, called it "Artist's shit" and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin.

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