Humans are born with only two innate fears. The fear of loud sounds and the fear of falling.

The rest are "learned fears" that develop at young age, influenced by our environment and culture.

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There is a "cult" offshoot of Christianity in China that believes Jesus is currently living in China as a Chinese woman.

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In some cases, the Russell viper's bite can cause the victim to experience reverse puberty.

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Before anesthesia, speed was essential to minimize pain and improve the odds of survival.

Robert Liston, a British surgeon who excelled at this, once performed a surgery, during which he moved so fast that he took an assistant's fingers off when cutting through a leg. Both the patient and the assistant later died of infection, and one spectator died of shock. This was the only known surgery in history that had a 300% mortality rate.

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German men are the most likely europeans to sit down to pee.

With 62% saying they do so "every time" or "most times". Sweds are the second most likely European men to do so. 

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In a room of 23, there is a more than 50% chance that two persons have the same birthday. It's a phenomenon known as the "Birthday Paradox".

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The First woman to run for President of the United States was Victoria Woodhull in 1872. 50 years before women could vote.

She had Frederick Douglass as her running mate, and spent election day in jail due to being arrested for obscenity.

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A 34-year-old man named Rogelio Andaverde was abducted by two armed and masked men from his home in Edinburg, Texas.

Terrified, his wife called the cops, but Andaverde remained missing. Two days later, he showed up at his house unharmed.

Investigators later found out that Andaverde staged his own kidnapping because he wanted to go out with his friends and party.

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Bae is a Danish word for poop.

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Caps on the heads of students, so that they do not write off each other in USA 1950s.

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Beheading was considered one of the cruelest types of execution in Chinese tradition, because the Chinese believed that a person's body was a gift from his parents, and therefore returning a dismembered body to oblivion was highly disrespectful to the ancestors.

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It’s a wedding custom for Turkish brides to spike the groom’s coffee with salt before the wedding, if he drinks it without complaint he’s a keeper.

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Rats are being trained to be sent into earthquake debris wearing tiny backpacks, so that rescue teams can talk to survivors.

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Psychopaths are immune to contagious yawning.

Catching someone's yawn is linked to empathy, and psychopaths are often immune.

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New Zealand has a law that prohibits anyone born on or after January 1, 2009 from purchasing tobacco, which means that one day only one person in New Zealand will be legally permitted to purchase cigarettes.

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