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2024-06-29 13:40:20 Beelzebufo, a.k.a. the Frog From Hell, is the largest known frog species to have ever lived. Its diet may have included juvenile dinosaurs.

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2024-06-29 07:08:00 Phrases such as “studies show” or “experts say” are called weasel words.

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2024-06-28 18:48:18 Rinconada, Peru is the world’s highest elevated city at 16,732 ft above sea level and its economy is based around a gold mine. The mine operates on a unique system where employees work for 30 days without payment, and on the 31st day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry.

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2024-06-28 16:45:08 There is a sausage restaurant in Regensburg, Germany which has been in business for over 900 years. That means they were selling sausages well before the Inca Empire existed and are still serving 6,000 sausages a day.

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2024-06-28 08:21:25 In Islamic law, a woman has the right to annul her marriage, if her husband is away for too long because her right to intimacy is paramount.

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2024-06-27 21:59:51 The Chinese government has deemed golf as a facet of corruption, condemning it as “a sport for millionaires”.

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2024-06-27 20:21:40 A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface and breathes without waking up and does this every ~4 minutes.

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2024-06-27 15:28:08 The reason all videos are subtitled on Netflix is because the National Association for the Deaf filed a class-action lawsuit against them in 2010.

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2024-06-27 09:50:45 The hottest curry on earth is a British curry made in Grantham, Lincolnshire known as ‘The Widower.’ It is so hot, fit can make you hallucinate.

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2024-06-26 20:59:57 According to psychologist Arthur Aron, there are 36 questions that could lead to love. Each question is more probing than the previous one and leads to a mutual vulnerability that fosters closeness. The final exercise is to stare into each other’s eyes for 4 minutes.

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