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2023-04-20 20:59:48 Fishes are friends no eating
When you’re on a diet and your supportive friends step in!

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2023-04-19 22:23:58 On average, taller people tend to have larger brains and better cognitive ability than shorter people

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2023-04-19 21:29:42 Even though they don't have wings, spiders can fly for hundreds of miles (across entire oceans) on long strands of silk using Earth's electric fields; it's called "ballooning." Spiders have been found two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.

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2023-04-18 21:35:06 Medical marijuana can force cancer cells to freeze and prevent them from spreading

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2023-04-18 20:31:41 Invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905, the Rubens tube graphically shows the relationship between sound waves and sound pressure, as a primitive oscilloscope.

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2023-04-17 22:00:42 Grapes are preserved without any chemicals in a ‘kangina’, the clay containers, which can be cracked open whenever you want to eat the grapes.

In Afghanistan, local residents preserve this summer crop for use in the winters. And they have been using a traditional method for this for centuries. The grapes are kept fresh for months by locking them inside airtight containers made of mud-straw.

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2023-04-17 20:23:12 When an image stayed on an old computer screen for too long, the image would get "burned" into the screen. To prevent this from happening, developers created moving images that would "save" the screen; this is where the term "screensaver" comes from.

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2023-04-17 16:49:50 A tick bite can make you allergic to red meat.

Plenty of people have food allergies, but few are the result of an insect bite. In a strange and growing trend, some people who get bitten by the Lone Star tick can develop a sudden allergy to red meat. Beef, lamb, and pork (which are technically classified as red meat) can make people with this allergy experience headaches, sneezing, a runny nose, and nausea. In severe cases, it can cause the person to be unable to breathe. For some sufferers, the allergy fades over time, but for others, it's permanent.

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2023-04-16 22:27:01 ​​Rapper J. Cole graduated high school with a 4.2 GPA. He accepted a scholarship to St. Johns University, was the president of a pan-African student coalition in college, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in communication and business.

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2023-04-16 21:51:02 Ernest Hemingway survived malaria, pneumonia, anthrax, skin cancer, dysentery, anemia, hepatitis, diabetes, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured liver, a ruptured spleen, a fractured skull, and a crushed vertebra

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