The word ‘Homeboy’ goes back to the 1800’s, and was used by African-Americans to refer to each other as people from ‘back home’.

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Sloths can swim 3 times faster than they can move on land and can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.

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Some of the shooting stars we see are actually astronaut poop burning up in the atmosphere.

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Washington Post

NASA reminds us that astronaut poop burns up ‘like shooting stars’

"Your feces will not be shooting stars," the agency helpfully points out.

Early light bulbs used bamboo filaments covered in carbon.

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edisontechcenter.org

History of the Incandescent Light

About incandescent lamp history and how they work

One theory why garlic was thought to repel vampires was that it’s an antibiotic, and since vampirism was often thought to be a disease, it was harmful to them. Another theory is that garlic was believed to repel mosquitoes, and since they’re both bloodsuckers, vampires would also be repelled.

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Mahatma Gandhi might have been a racist, referring to Blacks as: “savage,” “raw” and living a life of “indolence and nakedness. He also supported the British Empire during the Boer war where over 3500 Zulus were killed.

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When our inner voice speaks in our head, it is accompanied by subtle muscle movements from our larynx.

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In 1997 three men from Yemen sued NASA for trespassing on Mars. They claimed that they inherited the planet from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.

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Pablo Escobar used to cheat at Monopoly games with his kids by hiding extra money ahead of time near where he planned to sit.
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