Displaying a photograph of the Dalai Lama, praying for his long life, wearing an amulet with his image or having his voice chanting mantras on a mobile ring tone is a subversive criminal act in China.
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All humans are radioactive. Sleeping in the same bed with an average-size adult exposes you to about 5-10 millirems of radiation per hour @googlefactss #funfact
When you get a sunburn, it is not your skin cells that are damaged by the sun and die; rather, it is your skin cells' DNA that is damaged by the sun and kills itself so that they do not become cancer.
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A Greek Philosopher and Vatican Library Keeper believed that the rings of Saturn were the foreskin of Jesus.
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Leo Allatius
Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library
Spacesbetweenwordsarearelativelyrecentdevelopmentinthehistoryofwrittenlanguage @googlefactss #funfact
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Spaces and silence
Framing manuscript technology as "codes," this project examines how medieval people organised, stored, transmitted, and searched for information.
Dogs can understand as many as 250 words and gestures The average dog is as intelligent as a 2-year-old child @googlefactss #funfact #dogs
The space extending from your nose to the center of your lips is called the Philtrum. It serves no function in humans but allows other mammals to carry moisture from the mouth to the nose pad to keep it wet which traps odor particles better than a dry nose pad.
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Philtrum
vertical groove in the middle area of the upper lip, common to many mammals, extending in humans from the nasal septum to the tubercle of the upper lip
One of the first attempts to develop a guidance system for bombs involved training a pigeon to peck at the image of a target on a screen inside the bomb. @googlefactss #funfact
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Project Pigeon
A project developed by B.F. Skinner to create a bomb guided by pigeons.
About 10.7% of the world's population goes to bed hungry every night @googlefactss #others
The mimic octopus can change into more than 15 different shapes, including snake, stingray, lionfish, and furry turkey.
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A snake-dancing singer in Indonesia was bitten by a cobra while onstage but soldiered on, performing for another 45 minutes before she died @googlefactss #others
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Dangdut singer Irma Bule gets bitten by cobra on stage, keeps singing for 45 minutes before she dies | Coconuts
A consumate performer to the end.
The TOR Network was created by the United States Naval Research Laboratory to protect American Intelligence communications. @googlefactss #funfact
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Tor (network)
Tor is a free overlay network for enabling anonymous communication. Built on free and open-source software and more than seven thousand volunteer-operated relays worldwide, users can have their Internet traffic routed via a random path through the network.
There is a positive correlation between vitamin D and testosterone levels in men. The more sunlight exposure a man gets the more likely it is that he has elevated testosterone levels.
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Association of vitamin D status with serum androgen levels in men - PubMed
Androgen levels and 25(OH)D levels are associated in men and reveal a concordant seasonal variation. Randomized controlled trials are warranted to evaluate the effect of vitamin D supplementation on androgen levels.
In 1962, Bruce lee landed 15 punches, a kick and knocked out his opponent in a fight that lasted only 11 seconds.
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The oldest dwarf, Winnie Kelly, died at 99 years old. She credited her long life to being single, childless, having good friends and good health, and reading six hours a day. @googlefactss #funfact for more..
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Winnie Kelly, world's oldest living little person, turns 98 years old
Records are meant to be broken, and one Northeast Ohio woman is still breaking them.
If you tape two halves of a ping pong ball to your eyes, and stare at a red light while listening to the radio tuned to static, you can have complex and vivid hallucinations. This is called the Ganzfeld Procedure.
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Ganzfeld experiment
Pseudoscientific technique used to test individuals for extrasensory perception