Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts.

The word is derived from Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus, who so feared being poisoned that he regularly ingested small doses, aiming to develop immunity.

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Human muscles are limited by our brain. We actually have the strength to move cars and boulders.

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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, having all your teeth removed and replaced with false ones was considered a perfect gift for your 21st birthday or a newly wedded bride.

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We would like to wish a Merry Christmas to all of our Christian followers from all over the world celebrating today.

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In 2014, Russian, Sergey Grigoriyev, adopted a bear cub and raised it like “his child”. Four years later, after years of bonding, the bear rejected its usual food and proceeded to eat Sergey instead. When the Police arrived, all that remained of Sergey was a pile of bones.

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In 2011, a 29-year-old Australian bartender found an ATM glitch that allowed him to withdraw way beyond his balance.

In a bender that lasted four-and-half months, he managed to spend around $1.6 million of the bank’s money.

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Before rubber erasers became a thing, people in the 1770's used balled up, moistened bread to erase pencil marks.

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Is it better to be rich or famous? 

One of the oldest people on earth, Batuli Lamichhane, is a 119-year-old woman in Nepal who has smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for the last 100 years.

She says the secret to long life is to be active and stress free. She also advices smokers to avoid 'commercially made' cigarettes. Instead, she recommends locally made 'beedis' - tobacco wrapped in tendu leaf.

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Would you rather be really big or really smart?

Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov and his research company "The 2045 Initiative" are working on to create a technology to achieve humans immortality, using digital immortality by uploading humans mind to computer & then back into a different biological body or robotic body.

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Real-life Tarzan, Ho Van Lang who lived in the jungle with his father for over 40 years had no idea women existed or what sex was.

His father Ho Van Thanh fled civilisation with his sons after a US bomb killed his wife and two of his other.

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Who should pay on the first date? And Why?

-Male 100%
-Both split 50-50
-Female 100%

In 2012, a Burger King employee anonymously posted an image on 4-chan of himself putting his feet in lettuce. with the caption "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King."

Within a day, 4-chan users tracked down the branch where the man worked and contacted the news. He was promptly fired.

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In order of most important to least, how would you place these people in your lives?

-Mom
-Wife
-Daughter