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2023-03-08 21:42:41 Simon Berger is an artist who works with a hammer to make glass portraits

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2023-03-07 21:15:46 Dreams often reveal feelings that we've hidden or repressed, because dreams are a reflection of our unconscious mind, our emotional truth.

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2023-03-06 21:09:27 A frigate bird can sleep while it flies.

Birds can do some pretty amazing things. For example, frigate birds can sleep while flying. That's because they can snooze while using only one hemisphere of the brain at a time, according to a 2016 study published in the journal Nature Communications.

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2023-03-05 21:03:07 Cymatics

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2023-03-04 22:41:02 Greenland sharks don't reach sexual maturity until they're 150.

Greenland sharks, which are also known as gurry sharks or grey sharks, tend to live long lives. As the longest-living vertebrate on the planet, they can swim around the ocean for up to 400 years and don't reach sexual maturity until they're 150.

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2023-03-04 20:35:43 There's only one human organ that naturally regenerates.

Of all the organs in the human body, the liver is the only that can regenerate on its own. As researcher Richard Bowen explains, "The liver has a remarkable capacity to regenerate after injury and to adjust its size to match its host. Within a week after partial hepatectomy, which, in typical experimental settings entails surgical removal of two-thirds of the liver, hepatic mass is back essentially to what it was prior to surgery."

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2023-02-28 19:35:37 In Catalonia (Spain), a widespread tradition exists in which a smiley-face piece of wood called "Shitting Log" (Tió de Nadal) poops out the presents on Christmas. The story goes that in the days preceding Christmas, children must take good care of the log, keeping it warm and feeding it, so that it will defecate presents on Christmas Day or Eve.

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2023-02-26 22:09:30 Dear coffee snobs/caffeine addicts, I have bad news for you: caffeine doesn’t actually give you real energy. In fact, it just makes your brain think you’re not tired.

Once caffeine gets into your blood stream, it goes to receptors in your brain that usually host adenosine — a compound that builds up in you the longer you’re awake in order to tell you when to sleep. So how does this amount to equal faux-energy? Because the caffeine replaces the adenosine in your system, and thus stops your brain from knowing when to get tired and go to sleep. Pretty creepy, right?

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2023-02-25 19:12:57 In 2021, a Japanese man called Takashi Miyagawa was arrested for fraud after he gave each of his 35 girlfriends a different name and birth date so he could receive constant gifts throughout the year.

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