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Did You Know? A mom from England was so emotionally affected by venephobia, a fear of veins, begged doctor to amputate her legs despite there being nothing wrong with them.

  Sep 25, 2019   0   563

Did You Know? The very first bottle of Dr Pepper was sold in America on the 12th January, 1885.

  Sep 25, 2019   0   697

Did You Know? The Catholic Church once exhumed the rotting corpse of a deceased Pope and put him on trial.

  Sep 25, 2019   0   1227

Did You Know? Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

  Sep 24, 2019   0   1626

Did You Know? On any given day, as many as 10 volcanoes may be spewing ash or lava somewhere on Earth.

  Sep 24, 2019   0   956

Did You Know? The idea of contact lenses was first introduced by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508.

  Sep 23, 2019   0   2228

Did You Know? There's an alcoholism vaccine that will give drinkers an immediate hangover if they drink even a small amount of alcohol.

  Sep 23, 2019   0   1169

Did You Know? Mastercard was originally called mastercharge

  Sep 22, 2019   0   1198

Did You Know? Army ants are used as natural sutures. Their jaws are so powerful, natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and then break off the body.

  Sep 21, 2019   0   1412

Did You Know? According to the Journal of Experimental Psychology, fooling yourself into thinking you've slept well, even if you haven't, still improves performance.

  Sep 20, 2019   0   1161

Did You Know? The Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second.

  Sep 19, 2019   0   603

Did You Know? The Beatles showed their support for the US civil rights movement by refusing to play in concerts where audiences were segregated.

  Sep 19, 2019   0   1054

Did You Know? Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the building of the Great Pyramid.

  Sep 19, 2019   0   2070

Did You Know? The English word 'minion' comes from the French word 'mignon', which means 'cute'.

  Sep 19, 2019   0   1177

Did You Know? In 2014, Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data!

  Sep 19, 2019   0   355

Did You Know? The sounds made by Ghast from Minecraft are actually C418‘s cat when he bothered it while it was sleeping.

  Sep 18, 2019   0   926

Did You Know? The world's tallest model Amazon Eve, also known for her role in American Horror Story, was born a male.

  Sep 18, 2019   0   1095

Did You Know? Because of the dark and intense nature of the film Suicide Squad, director David Ayer hired an on-set therapist for the cast.

  Sep 17, 2019   0   892

Did You Know? Eugene Shoemaker is the only person whose ashes have been buried on any celestial body outside Earth.

  Sep 12, 2019   0   1430

Did You Know? William Shakespeare had a curse engraved on his tombstone to prevent anyone from moving his bones.

  Sep 11, 2019   0   1569

Did You Know? The first rugby club was formed in 1843.

  Sep 9, 2019   0   1269

Did You Know? According to a study, Twitter and Facebook are harder to resist than tobacco and alcohol.

  Sep 5, 2019   0   615

Did You Know? Horses and cows can sleep standing up, but they don‘t experience full REM sleep unless they lie down.

  Aug 21, 2019   0   761

Did You Know? The first jet aircraft was invented in Nazi Germany. Development started in 1936, but first takeoff occurred in 1939.

  Aug 15, 2019   0   352

Did You Know? Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.

  Aug 15, 2019   0   746

Did You Know? The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, ate a spoonful of the stuff every single day.

  Aug 14, 2019   0   2452

Did You Know? In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them down!

  Aug 7, 2019   0   354

Did You Know? There's a species of orchid that looks like a monkey's face called 'Dracula simia'.

  Aug 6, 2019   0   3210

Did You Know? Ireland’s oldest pub dates back to the year 900 CE.

  Aug 5, 2019   0   1045

Did You Know? A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. It takes 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis (sidereal day). The planet's orbit around the Sun takes 225 Earth days.

  Jul 31, 2019   0   1166

Did You Know? The original meaning of the word ‘silly‘ means ‘blessed‘ or ‘happy‘.

  Jul 30, 2019   0   476

Did You Know? If you were drafted during the American Civil War, you could legally pay someone else $300 to go in your place.

  Jul 26, 2019   0   562

Did You Know? Morphine is named after 'Morpheus', the Greek god of dreams.

  Jul 25, 2019   0   1510

Did You Know? A 'butt' was a unit of measure for wine in Medieval England.

  Jul 24, 2019   0   1242

Did You Know? The Walking Dead cast and crew holds ‘death dinners‘ for any characters who get killed off the show.

  Jul 23, 2019   0   330

Did You Know? The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.

  Jul 18, 2019   0   904

Did You Know? 'I Gotta Feeling' by The Black Eyed Peas sold more copies than any Elvis Presley single when it was first released.

  Jul 18, 2019   0   1181

Did You Know? Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year.

  Jul 17, 2019   0   612

Did You Know? The 1831 London Bridge was sold in 1962 when it needed to be replaced. It was bought by Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to help tourism.

  Jul 17, 2019   0   1682

Did You Know? You could cover the Great Wall of China 8 times with the number of jars of Nutella sold in a year.

  Jul 17, 2019   0   1132

Did You Know? Apple have a ‘no smoking’ ban regarding their computers, which means if you smoke while using an Apple computer, you void the warranty.

  Jul 16, 2019   0   1683

Did You Know? Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have a ball after I’m gone".

  Jul 16, 2019   0   2256

Did You Know? In 1889, the Queen of Italy, Margherita Savoy, ordered the first pizza delivery.

  Jul 12, 2019   0   2565

Did You Know? Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

  Jul 5, 2019   0   423

Did You Know? At weddings, the bride normally stands to the left of the groom so that his sword hand is free to defend against other suitors.

  Jun 26, 2019   0   897

Did You Know? Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.

  Jun 19, 2019   0   3105

Did You Know? More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean.

  Jun 19, 2019   0   975

Did You Know? The largest living thing on earth is a giant sequoia named General Sherman.

  Jun 18, 2019   0   1287

Did You Know? Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

  Jun 18, 2019   0   689

Did You Know? The color of white wine gets darker as it ages, while red wine gets lighter in color.

  Jun 17, 2019   0   1087

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