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The fastest train in the world is Japans MLX01 Maglev, which can travel a mile in about 10 seconds

The Chaetopterus pugaporcinus is a tiny worm that was discovered by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in 2007. It's roughly 10-20 mm in size. Oh yeah, it's more commonly known as the pigbutt worm or flying buttocks, and its Latin species name roughly translates to "resembling a pig's rear".

Rotationplasty is when a person's ankle essentially becomes their knee due to a tumor that requires cutting out a large portion of their leg

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This fucker is known as the Australian horror moth because of course

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Yuck but interesting. From Newsweek

Comments on the video of C. gangis, which six days after posting has more than 200,000 shares, express fear and confusion at this strange creature's inflating organs which are each about the length of the rest of his body. The behavior is confusing and makes it look a bit like a sinister alien. But the animal is harmless, as long as you don't eat too many of them.
When C. gangis is just a caterpillar, before it has transformed into its mothy self, it eats plants with alkaloid chemicals. These plants evolved toxicity to discourage insects from eating them, but the caterpillars bit back evolutionarilyin fact, it's necessary for them to eat the toxic plants in order to grow these glands as moths. The more toxins they eat, the bigger their hair-pencils ultimately will be. These toxins also have the added benefit of making them taste terrible

The most decorated ship in Navy history is the USS New Jersey. She is also the best waifu in Azur Lane, partly due to her permanent :3 face

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Herpes Gladiatorum, commonly known as mat herpes is a skin infection commonly found in wrestlers. Roughly 30% of high school wrestlers carry it, but only 3% are aware they carry it. Its commonly spread because of the skin-to-skin contact, as well as the virus being on the mats.

• Fever (especially during first episode)
• Swollen lymph nodes.
• Sore throat.
• Tingling feeling on the skin.
• Cluster (usually more than one) of clear, fluid-filled blisters, Blisters may or may not be painful. Blisters may be surrounded by redness. Blisters usually heal within seven to 10 days.

* Fever (especially during first episode)
* Swollen lymph nodes.
* Sore throat.
* Tingling feeling on the skin.
* Cluster (usually more than one) of clear, fluid-filled blisters, Blisters may or may not be painful. Blisters may be surrounded by redness. Blisters usually heal within seven to 10 days.

Lightsaber dueling is an official sport in France

Also, interesting Wonder Woman fact: the creator of Wonder Woman was in a thruple that involved his first wife and his student. They were heavily into bondage which inspired early iterations of the super heroine. Thruple lasted 22 years all the way to his death

According to a YouTube comment (so take this with a grain of salt), more than 72% of people climbing Mount Everest report seeing a corpse.

Although an actual proven fact is that it's pronounced "EVE-rest", rather than "ever-est".

An estimated 300 people have died attempting to climb Mount Everest, with approximately 200 bodies still on the mountain.

Bet it's 99% whites and Asians too if not 100%

It is easy to see what country most of them are from, but not their race.
That said, around 4000 persons have climbed the mountain, and only 8 of them were black. I think all of them survived.

It's a running joke that only white people do crazy shit like skydive or mountain climb. But I assumed some Asians too since well its in Asia and I wouldn't be surprised if a guide has died before.

Soccer balls were initially used for basketball, and they worked fine with the original rules as there was no dribbling. It was more of a rugby like game, running with the ball and mayhem on the court. To reduce bloodshed, running was eliminated, passing and dribbling were then the only ways to move the ball. Naismith, the creator of basketball, worked with Spalding to create a ball that worked with the evolving rules, something about the same size as a soccer ball, that bounced better on a hardwood gym floor.