In the early 1900s, "Sober Sue" drew audiences for never smiling, with a theater offering $1000 to anyone who could make her laugh.

Famous comedians tried and failed, delighting the crowd with free shows. It was later discovered that Sue had facial paralysis.

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Public toilets in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Would you use?

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Last year a laboratory in Tokyo, developed a pair of chopsticks that makes your food taste saltier, by giving you mild electric shocks.

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A pregnant guinea pig may change her mind about becoming a mother, then the cubs are absorbed inside or preserved for several years.

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Excessive love for cats can cause mental illness leading to suicide.

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Keeping your cell phone in your front pants pocket meaningfully reduces your testosterone and your sperm quality.

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Being a bad driver is partially a genetic trait.

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In the US, a 10 year old can get legally married, and between 2000 and 2018 almost 300,000 minors were legally married.

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Only two animals can see behind them without turning their heads. 

This is a parrot and a rabbit.

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Non-alcoholic beer is a natural isotonic, quickly saturates the body with liquid and replenishes the reserves of microelements. 

Many professional athletes use it during competitions and training.

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In public toilets of Japan, you can turn on music, so that you are not embarrassed by derivative sounds.

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The split personality of a person can have not only a different character, but also different mental and physical abilities, be of a different age, have different health.

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We would like to wish you a Happy New year and a wonderful time ahead🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊

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It is such a stigma to adopt children in South Korea that women are recommended to wear a maternity pillow to appear pregnant until the adoption is finalized.

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We care more about a single person than about massive tragedies. It's called psychic numbing.

A psychologist explains the limits of human compassion at a University of Pennsylvania study. One group learned about a little girl who was starving to death, another learned about millions dying of hunger, and a third learned about both situations.

People donated more than twice as much money when hearing about the little girl than when hearing the statistics, and even the group who had heard her story in the context of the bigger tragedy donated less. Psychologists think that we're wired to help the person in front of us, but when the problem feels too big, we figure our little part isn't doing much.

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Diamonds aren't actually rare. It's all a marketing strategy.

Mine owners created the false scarcity so they could get wealthy. Scientists estimate that there is one quadrillion tons of diamonds inside of the Earth. Which is enough to give every human on the planet a cupful.

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Canadian start up company sells bottled air to china.

Moses Lam, a Canadian entrepreneur, saw an unlikely product opportunity, in this phenomenon, fresh Canadian air.

Lam said his canned air business is booming, 'We're selling fresh air in China.' The Creator of Vitality air Lam profits 230,000$ in a year selling air.

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In England 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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China is facing a new virus outbreak with the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) spreading rapidly, with COVID-19-like symptoms.

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In Ancient Rome, after a person pooped, a communal sponge was used to wipe.

The sponge was then rinsed in a bucket of salt water or vinegar before being used by the next person.

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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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