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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Ocular vicarious menstruation is a rare disorder where, a woman bleeds through her eyes during menstrual periods.

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This is Barreleye Fish, and it is the first fish to have transparent head.

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August has the most birthdays while February has the least, and most of the serial killers are born in November.

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The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes from head to toe. They are called Blaschiko's Lines. They are invisible to human eye & are only visible under Ultra violent light.

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Australian scientists have created a device that allows blind people to see.

The developed device is called Phoenix 99. It records images from an external camera and transmits them to the retina using a special bionic implant.

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You meet about 16 killers in your lifetime, but you don't know it.

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In England, in the 18th century, you could sell your wife at a fair.

Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage that probably began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. After parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband would publicly auction  her to the highest bidder. 

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Japanese people aged over 70, work in places with high radiation. 

They do this to protect young people from exposure to radiation that takes 20-30 years for cancer to develop.

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The Same Height Party by Hans Hemmert in 1997.

The German Artist Who Threw A Party Where Everyone Saw Eye To Eye by wearing shoe extender, making everyone 6 1/2 feet (two meters) tall.

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Cucumber can actually cure bad breath.

Cucumbers, boost your mouth's saliva production & the photochemical kills the bacteria that causes bad breath which washes away odor-causing bacteria.

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California has a higher GDP than all of Africa combined.

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It is impossible to catch a cold at the North and South Poles.

And you can't get the flu. The reason is obvious: it is so cold at the poles that ordinary viruses simply do not survive there.

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Divorce is illegal in Philippines. The only way to end a marriage is to die.

One way is annulment, which is extremely expensive and is rarely granted by judges and courts. 

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