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Cleopatra was the daughter of her cousin.
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›Irish twins‹ are siblings born in the same calendar year (or at most 12 months apart).
February had 30 days in 1712 in Sweden.
Bratislava is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.
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›etc.‹ is sometimes abbreviated as ›&c‹, & being a combination of the letters e and t, dating back to Romans writing ›et‹ in cursive script.
Many movies are stored with 23.976 Hz, a relict of the color NTSC format, which played 24000 frames in 1001 seconds (actually 60000 fields per 1000 seconds).
Arabic naming tradition often relates persons to their first-born son when referring to them.
›Eunoia‹ is the shortest English word containing all five vowels. Also the name of a book with five chapters, each chapter containing only one of the vowels.
The (y) ›thumbs up/like‹ emoticon simply is an abbreviation of ›yes‹. MSN messenger also supported (n) for a thumbs down icon.
The deepest borehole of the ›Kola Superdeep Borehole‹ scientific drilling project is 12,262 meters deep and is the deepest artificial point on earth.
Capsaicin (the molecule which makes chili peppers hot) increases the lethality of cocaine.
Ovulation of camels is induced by semen. Alpacas ovulate after coital stimulation.
GMT (more precisely UT1) and UTC can differ by up to 0.9 seconds and are based on seconds of minimally different length. This drift is corrected by inserting a leap second every few years.
The quietest room on earth can be found in the Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis. It absorbs 99.99 % of sound and is measured at -9 decibels.
›Cthulhu‹ is pronounced ›K-lütl-lütl‹.
›Prosopagnosia‹ is a cognitive disorder which results in the inability to recognize faces. It’s often also called ›face blindness‹.
Rhesus monkeys, after being trained to recognize themselves in a mirror, will first check out their own butts.
Crash test dummies are getting fatter to better represent humanity.
Humans breathe out of only one nostril controlled by erectile tissue in the nose, alternating nostrils every 2 or 3 hours. This is called the ›nasal cycle‹.
The ›Special‹ SMS tone on Nokia phones is Morse Code for ›SMS‹ (... -- ...).
›Semordnilaps‹ are words which form a different valid word when written backwards.
UPS designs its delivery routes to avoid left turns to minimize waiting times at intersections and thus save fuel.
The czech automobile brand ›Škoda‹ translates to ›damage‹.
Arnold Schwarzenegger earned $21,429 per word in the Terminator 2: Judgement Day movie, given his reported $15m salary and 700 words of dialogue.
The sum of all natural numbers equals -1/12. Update: It's a fake (http://periodicvideos.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/thanks.html)
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Steel produced after WWII is contaminated with radioactive particles from nuclear bombs, and thus cannot be used for certain purposes.
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Chicken cannons (or turkey guns) are used to test airplane jet engines since the 1950s.
Fictional phone numbers in American movies start with 555.
›Ana‹ and ›kata‹ are the two additional directions in four-dimensional space.
›Inflammable‹ and ›flammable‹ are synonyms.
The Sun's surface (photosphere) temperature is 5778 K.
802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi operates on the same 2.4 GHz frequency band as is used by microwave ovens to heat food.
The country code CH for Switzerland comes from the Latin name »Confoederatio Helvetica«.
Tonic water glows under black light.
Caffeine can have strong effects on spiders’ abilities to build webs.
Someone should go and create a library named ›ella‹.
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‘Factoid’ is not a fancy word for ‘fact’.
Side-effect free programs are not a good thing. All side-effect free programs can be optimized away entirely.
Alcohol contains almost twice as many calories as carbohydrates or proteins.
Ever wondered why e-mails sometimes contain stray capital ‘J’s? Microsoft Outlook replaces ASCII emoticons with ‘J’ rendered in the WingDings font.