In 2013, a woman from Belgium intended to pick up a friend in Brussels, about 90 miles away.

Due to a GPS error, she drove over 900 miles across five countries, reaching Croatia after two days, unaware of her mistake.

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Astronauts on the ISS do not wash or dry their clothes. Instead, they wear each item until it's too dirty or smelly, then pack it into waste capsules that burn up in Earth's atmosphere during re-entry.

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Bats in the U.S.consume vast quantities of insects, providing natural pest control that saves farmers an estimated $23 billion annually in reduced crop damage and pesticide use.

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The Aquatic fern Azolla is extremely effective at pulling CO2 from the air Around 50 million years ago, massive Azolla blooms in the Arctic helped lower atmospheric CO2 and triggered global cooling.

Today, scientists are exploring its potential to fight climate change.

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If you lived in a basement your whole life, you would age a few nanoseconds longer than someone living in a second-story apartment.

This is due to stronger gravity closer to Earth slowing time more, so time literally passes slightly faster upstairs near a building's top.

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Millennials aged 18-34 are now more likely to live with their parents than with a spouse or partner-the first time this has happened since record-keeping began in 1880.

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Indian women hold about 11% of the world's gold-more than the combined reserves of the USA, IMF, Switzerland, and Germany.

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There are more people in the Tokyo metropolitan area than in Canada.

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In 1875, an estimated 12 trillion Rocky Mountain locusts spread across 198,000 square miles of the Great Plains, weighing around 27.5 million tons.

They stripped all plant life--and even ate clothes off farmers who tried to shoo them away.

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In 2005, graffiti artist David Choe was offered $60,000 to paint murals at Facebook's headquarters.

He chose stock instead of cash, and when Facebook went public in 2012, his shares were worth more than $200 million.

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There is mental disorder called Maladaptive Daydreaming which causes people to excessively daydream to escape reality as a defense mechanism due to trauma usually from abuse.

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Atlanta, Georgia has the highest tree coverage among major U.S. cities at 46.5%, earning it the nickname "City in the Forest".

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Rainbow eucalyptus trees shed their bark in strips, revealing fresh green layers that mature into blue, purple, orange, and red shades-creating a stunning, ever-changing multicolored trunk.

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The Lucky Iron Fish is used to help people with iron deficiency--just cook it in your food or water, and it releases iron to supplement your diet.

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Helicoprion was a shark-like fish that lived around 270 million years ago.

It grew up to 7.5 meters long and had a spiral, chainsaw-like whorl of teeth in its lower jaw.

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Some slaughterhouses use a "Judas goat"-a specially trained goat that calmly leads sheep or cattle to the slaughter area, while its own life is spared.

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In Churchill, Canada, locals often keep their car doors unlocked so that anyone facing a polar bear can quickly escape to safety.

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People born blind naturally express core emotions like happiness, fear, and anger using identical facial muscle movements as sighted people, indicating these expressions are biologically innate, not learned through seeing others.

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The 9,100-year-old 'Cheddar Man' skeleton discovered in Somerset was genetically matched to local teacher Adrian Targett in 1997.

Their shared mitochondrial DNA proves an unbroken maternal lineage spanning 300 generations - the longest verified family connection in history.

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A British man suspected of having lung cancer underwent surgery to remove a lump in his lung.

Doctors discovered it was actually a tiny Playmobil traffic cone he had accidentally inhaled 40 years earlier as a child. He did not have cancer after all, and his symptoms improved after the toy wa removed.

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China's National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) has developed a mosquito-sized microdrone for covert military operations.

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