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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:23 am
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Fact: Ancient Corinth in Greece was incredibly strategically significant. It had a massive monolithic acropolis and two ports on an isthmus, which controlled trade for the surrounding areas. In war time, they could also have cut off the peninsula's access to the mainland or vice versa. And yet, we hear about Athens and Sparta more...
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:32 am
Rawr!!
Fact: Those Danishes you might have for breakfast aren't actually from Denmark--the pastry was brought there by Austrian bakers when Danish pastry chefs went on strike in the 1850s.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:36 am
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Fact: Louis Armstrong played the trumpet so much that he got callouses on his lips. He cut them off with a razor blade.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:38 am
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Fact: Lake Nicaragua is the only spot on Earth where freshwater sharks swim in their native habitat.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:41 am
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Fact: Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:21 am
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Fact: Zoos around the world are raising cheetah cubs with puppy companions to help the cheetahs deal with excess energy, learn social cues, and combat stress.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:33 am
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Fact: A mole can dig a tunnel that is 300 feet long in only one night!
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:34 am
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Fact: Chickens can see a much wider range of colors than humans, and may react strongly to some, with bright red being the most common offender. For this reason, in many hatcheries, staff that work with the chickens are not allowed to wear certain colors.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:42 am
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:42 am
Rawr!!
Fact: Did you know that Ball Python snakes are ambush predators, who live in termite mounds and burrows, and only see light when moving from one mound to another. Their natural prey is the African Soft Furred Rat.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:45 am
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Fact: A 100-bat colony of vampire bats drink the blood of 25 cows every year.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:47 am
Rawr!!
Fact: If you can inhale a pea it can sprout and grow in your lungs. (Never eating peas again. Thanks)
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 10:52 am
Rawr!!
Fact: During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 12:07 pm
Rawr!!
Fact: The use of pole for sports and exercise has been traced back at least eight hundred years to the traditional Indian sport of mallakhamb, which utilizes principles of endurance and strength using a wooden pole, wider in diameter than a modern standard pole.
Yes... I just gave a fact on pole dancing
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 12:32 pm
Rawr!!
Fact: Out of all the dog breeds, the Beagle has the highest pain tolerance.
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