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Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between

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Male lions can weigh up to 550 pounds (250 kilograms), while females are generally smaller, weighing around 350 pounds (160 kilograms). Andrew Keen became famous in the 2000s for his scathing criticism of internet culture and its deleterious effects on how expertise is perceived – in some ways prophesying many of the problems dogging cyberspace today. His podcast is less focused on that and more concerned with the future of capitalism at large. Keen, a bluff Brit whose accent verges on the Mid-Atlantic, conducts with panache interviews with luminaries of all stripes, from Yanis Varoufakis to Talking Politics's David Runciman.

In 2017, a Dallas middle school held a “ Breakfast with Dads” event. However, some students did not have fathers or father figures to bring. So, one of the organizers posted on Facebook, asking for about 50 volunteers. In the end, 600 men showed up to help. 401/500 Kings and Queens have two birthdays (one that is the day they're born and the other is the Trooping the Colour)

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The Moon looks upside down in the Southern Hemisphere. Compared to the Northern Hemisphere, anyway. This means that the ‘Man in the Moon’ is upside down in the Southern Hemisphere and looks more like a rabbit. You remember more dreams when you sleep badly. Research suggests that if you sleep badly and wake up multiple times throughout the night you will be more likely to recall the content of any dreams you had. You are also more likely to remember a dream when woken from one. Lions are powerful carnivores, meaning they primarily eat meat, and their diet consists mainly of large herbivores.

Aristotle developed Aristotelian physics in 300 B.C., but most of it was speculative and proven wrong by other philosophers. What? Documentary series about one of the largest serial sexual abuse cases in U.S. history and how it happened Somebody has been constipated for 45 days. In 2013, an unfortunate Indian woman had to undergo surgical removal of a faecal mass as large as a football. Insects can fly up to 3.25km above sea level, at least. Alpine bumblebees have been found living as high up as 3.25km above sea level and could even fly in lab conditions that replicate the air density and oxygen levels at 9km – that's just higher than Mount Everest.

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The world's tallest man was Robert Wadlow from Michigan, America. He measured 8 feet and 2 inches (or 272cm).

Flamingoes aren’t born pink. They actually come into the world with grey/white feathers and only develop a pinkish hue after starting a diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae The youngest football player to play in a World Cup was Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland in 1982 at age 17.The Universe's average colou r is called 'Cosmic latte'. In a 2002 study, astronomers found that the light coming from galaxies averaged into a beige colour that’s close to white. All mammals get goosebumps. When your hair stands on end, tiny muscles contract at each hair's base which distorts the skin to create goosebumps. This process is called piloerection and is present in all mammals. Hair or fur is used to trap an insulating air layer.

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