​​The World’s most expensive building ever constructed is the Great Mosque of Mecca located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with a total construction cost of $100 billion.

It's one of the oldest mosques in the world and was built over the course of centuries, starting in the year 638.

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In 1906, a man named Joe Munch was sentenced to one minute in jail.

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Small changes make a big difference.

The Smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. START NOW!

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Unripe papaya may be used as a home remedy for teeth whitening. Raw papaya might be a good bleaching agent because it contains papain and chymopapain enzymes.

These enzymes are found in unripe papaya more than in ripe papaya. Papain enzyme may be able to remove the superficial stains of the teeth and reduce the plaque development in the teeth.

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In 2013, a Milan court sentenced a homeless man to house arrest. Each night police went round to his bit of pavement to make sure he was in his sleeping bag.

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Last year in Ireland, a woman was hospitalised with "extreme stomach pain" caused by years of holding in farts around her boyfriend.

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Meet the Jim twins. Identical twins, separated at birth and both adopted by different families.

Both married and divorced women named Linda and remarried women named Betty. Both had a dog called Toy. They both named their son James Alan. They reunited at age 39.

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There are more than 24 time zones around the world.

If the Earth's time zones were each one hour apart, then we would have 24 times zones, which sounds pretty straightforward. However, the situation is a little more complicated than that. Since many time zones only differ by 30 or 45 minutes, they don't fit into a neat and tidy 24-hour span, which means that there are more than 24, though it's hard to say exactly how many.

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Straightening people’s teeth also improves their balance.

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Your taste buds have an average lifespan of 10 days.

Adult taste buds, in general, turn over within eight to 12 days. Taste buds are clusters of polarized sensory cells embedded in the tongue, and the ones that are closer to the surface have a shorter lifespan. That's why, when you burn your tongue, it doesn't take too long until you're able to taste again.

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China buys bottled fresh air from Britain.

British entrepreneur Leo De Watts, 27, has made thousands of dollars selling bottles of British country air to Chinese buyers, but the price alone – £80 ($115) per bottle – could knock the wind out of many customers.

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Dogs line up with earth's magnetic field when they poop. They usually prefer a north-south axis.

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Skipping breakfast causes brain degeneration, because low blood sugar levels leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain.

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There was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch, imprisoned at Auschwitz.

He was forced to fight fellow prisoners. The losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot.

He survived more than 3 years and 200 fights, eventually being released when the camp was liberated. His story was portrayed in the 1989 film 'Triumph of the spirit'.

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It might be hard to see with your naked eye, but everyone you pass by every day is literally glowing.

The human body emits a small quantity of visible light ("visible" in the technical sense—the illumination is about 1,000 times less intense than levels of light that we would actually be able to see).

Researchers in Japan used a special camera to track this glow and found that it fluctuates throughout the day, with the body emitting its lowest levels of light around 10 a.m. and highest at around 4 p.m., a rhythm the scientists attribute to the changes in one's metabolism.

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