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Broccoli is actually 'man-made' through the breeding of different cabbage crops.

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Dr. John Nash Jr. of Game Theory fame

has 2 son's named John

one is a PhD in Maths
one is a Nurse with an ave. IQ

Ants are as old as dinosaurs and it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 trillion ants on the planet.

james bond franchise original producer albert "cubby" broccoli, belonged to the family which invented broccoli the vegetable.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

the collective noun for a group of tigers is an ambush [of tigers].

Deer have no gall bladders.

in one liturgical organ in Europe, there are organ pipes 128' tall, fat enough for a man to stand inside of. these produce tones as low as 4 cycles per second. the subjective sound of such is not comparable to any other thing and is violently tactile.

schistosomes can lodge in gut, bladder or vagina (where they increase risk of contracting HIV). they can cause heart, liver, and brain damage. prevention and treatment is with praziquantel. it burrows into your skin when you're in poorly sanitized water. part of its life is spent in snails.

the first person to make what are recognizable as console home electronic organs, was Laurens Hammond whose company originally made electric clocks.

During the Middle Ages, a lemon slice was served with fish because it was thought that the juice would dissolve any bones that were accidentally swallowed.

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dean martin didn't learn English until he was an adult.

‘Science Cheerleader' is an association of about 300 current and former NFL and NBA cheerleaders who study or work in STEM fields. They host many types of events that encourage young women to consider careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

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Vladimir Putin personally burned a lot of KGB files when the Berlin wall was coming down, he was an intelligence officer. The image of his icy eyes with the fire reflecting in them is pretty funny to consider.

The Japanese have a word for the habit of buying too many books, letting them pile up in your house, and never reading them.

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