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Female kangaroos have three vaginas.

Takeshi Kitano made 19 feature films in the 2010s.
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The part about the garden of Eden in the book of Genesis (notice how that story is kind of its own thing) is basically plagiarized from neighboring Middle Eastern mythologies.

Two common theories for Ezekiels sky vision are that he literally saw UFOs or that he was on psychedelics.
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masticatingman posted...

Two common theories for Ezekiels sky vision are that he literally saw UFOs or that he was on psychedelics.

Too be fair a rather large amount of the old testament can be explained by peopke being high on drugs.
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A dolphins brain is more folded than a humans, and it was this way for millions of years. Whats interesting is that researchers often measure the level of intelligence an animal has by the number of brain folds it has.
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Sierra Nevada Pale Ale has an ABV of 5.6% and 38 IBUs (international bitterness units).
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In Super Smash Bros. Pikachu only ever says the "chu" part of its name when you use its neutral special (Thunder Jolt) and Final Smash (Volt Tackle), which are both activated using the same button.

The 1981 album 'Crowd Control' by MX-80 Sound contains both a shogaze song and a slowcore song, two genres that weren't really a thing until years later.
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One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.

Harold McNeill, the guy who painted the old 'Invoke Prejudice' MTG card, is a white supremacist.


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The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.

Microwave go mmmmmmmmmmm.
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Blue whales have the largest penises on Earth. An erect blue whale penis is 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter and ten feet in length.
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Birds have a poor sense of smell, so putting a baby bird back in its nest won't cause the mother to abandon it "because they smell like humans".

Also birds lack the taste buds to sense spiciness, so they'll gladly eat peppers :3
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We've known that lead was toxic since at least the time of the Roman Empire. And we still used it in our pipes and our gasoline.
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The original PC versions of Doom and Doom II had a hardcoded framerate limit of 35 fps.
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The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is 196 feet. That's longer than the 120 feet the Wright brothers traveled on their first flight.

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Our closest relatives, monkeys, have 48 chromosomes. The same number as a potato.

Films usually run at 24 frames-per-second. When a film being encoded for NTSC video at 29.97 FPS, the editors have the use the 3:2 pulldown method.

To explain how the 3:2 pulldown method works, imagine four film frames in a film that have to be converted for NTSC video. The first frame gets divided into three NTSC fields, whilst the second frame is divided into two fields, hence the name 3:2 pulldown. The third frame is divided into three fields, the fourth is divided into two fields and so on.
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Trump is the president of United States of America
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The two brightest stars in the constellation Libra used to be the claws of an ancient constellation which would later become Scorpius, the Scorpion.

This history is still reflected in the translations of their names, Zubeneschamali (Northern Claw) and Zubenelgenubi (Southern Claw).
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An exposed, snowless mountain/rock formation poking through a glacier is called a nunatak.
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