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Sichuan peppercorns aren't peppers at all. Rather, they're the dried berries of the prickly ash tree...
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Scientists have been tracking a Laysan albatross bird named Wisdom since 1956. She is still going st...
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From the 1960s to the early 1990s, RadioShack had a "battery of the month" club. Members were issued...
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Of all the world's existing companies that are 200+ years old, over half are Japanese
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The chili pepper is native to Central and South America. It did not exist in any European, African, ...
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No continent outside of Europe and South America have won the World Cup
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Butterflies remember being caterpillars Studies suggest they retain some memories even after liquefy...
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French cyclist Jean Robic would cheat in the Tour De France downhill sections by having an assistant...
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F1 drivers lose approximately 2 to 3 kilograms of their weight during a race due to sweating
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340+ people have died attempting to scale Mount Everest, over 200 bodies haven't been found or recov...
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Sharks, whose oldest known fossils are from ~450 mya, are much older than Polaris, the youngest, lar...
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When Victor Hugo died in 1885, some Parisian brothels reportedly closed for a day to mourn his passi...
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A "Condor" score in golf, which is -4, under par. condor would be a hole-in-one on a par-five, a two...
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The 1997 death of unknown "Baby Garnet" remained unsolved until 2022, when a woman took an at-home D...
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Los Angeles is actually an active oil pumping field that at its height provided 25% of all the oil i...
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Emma Stone registered for the Screen Actors Guild at age 16, the name Emily Stone, her birth name, w...
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