As a part of the recruitment process, women seeking a career as police officers in Indonesia must be virgin and pretty.

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There is a bank in Italy that keeps
cheese instead of money.

Credito Emiliano, a bank in northern Italy that accepts cheese as collateral for a loan. It has done so since 1953.

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After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

If you’re heading to a concert or a musical after a big meal you may be doing yourself a disservice. Try eating a smaller meal if you need to keep your hearing pitch perfect.

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Measuring swimsuit length at Washington DC beach in the 1920s.

If a swimsuit was too short, women were fined there were police who patrolled the area with measuring tape.

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One of the weirdest items ever sold at auction is, Queen Victoria's Underpant which was sold for $16,300.

Queen Victoria –was Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, who died at age 81 in 1901.

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Astronauts wear adult diapers with their spacesuit. It is worn by both male and female astronauts.

Adult diapers is worn by astronauts during liftoff, landings, spacewalks, and extra-vehicular activities in which making it to a bathroom simply isn't possible.

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After brushing your teeth, food feels disgusting, why?

The foaming agent used in most toothpastes is to blame. Sodium lauryl sulfate weakens the taste buds that are responsible for sweet taste perception. Sodium lauryl sulfate also destroys phospholipids, which normally reduce bitterness.

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Lightning often follows a volcanic eruption due to the friction between particles of the dense ash clouds that are formed as a result of the eruption. When the particles rub together, the charges inside the ash clouds begin to separate. The resulting charge buildup generates lightning strikes from the volcano itself not the sky above.

This rare natural mysterious
phenomenon is called a "Muddy Thunderstorm".

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A Professional sleeper is someone who gets paid to sleep. They generally do this as part of scientific research focused on analysing sleep patterns or evaluating the quality of various sleep-related products.

As of Aug 2, 2022, the average annual pay for a Professional Sleeper in the United States is $59,998 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $28.85 an hour. This is the equivalent of $1,154/week or $5,000/month.

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Lamborghini cars were invented when the Lamborghini tractor company was insulted by the creator of Ferrari.

Ferruccio Lamborghini, born on April 28, 1916, once complained of a weak clutch in his Ferrari car to founder Enzo Ferrari, after that Enzo Ferrari replied to Lamborghini

“Lamborghini, you may be able to drive a tractor, but you will never be able to handle a Ferrari properly".

Lamborghini then founded rival luxury sports car company Autombili Lamborghini. Before that Lamborghini used to make tractors.

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In Malawi a book noscriptd: "HOW TO CHANGE YOUR WIFE IN 30 DAYS" sold two million copies in one week, before it was discovered that the noscript had a spelling error!

The correct noscript is: "HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN 30 DAYS". After the correction, for the whole month, only 3 copies were sold.

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