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Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid on earth. ($39,000,000 per gallon)

If you hear a lie over and over again, you’ll probably start to believe it’s true – even if you know it isn’t. The ‘illusion of truth’ suggests that when you hear a statement repeated frequently, your brain starts to accept it as fact – even if you’re aware of contradicting facts.

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Some have theorized that Misophonia may actually be emotion-sound synesthesia.
If true it may be the most prevalent form.

The Six Flags theme parks are named after the six actual flags that have flown over Texas. In 1961, the original Six Flags Over Texas opened in Arlington with six distinct areas, each honoring one of the six flags Texas has flown throughout its history: Spain, France Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States.

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When it comes to animals' fast-flight capabilities, birds get all the credit.

The common swift, named appropriately, goes up to 70 miles per hour (113 kilometers per hour) when flying horizontally and is widely recognized as the speediest avian species.

But new research shows the Brazilian free-tailed bat is swooping in on the swift's record, pushing speeds up to 100 miles per hour.

The plural of LEGO is ‘LEGO’. According to the brand itself, another acceptable option is 'LEGO bricks’, but using the term 'LEGOS’ is practically an insult.

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the reverse side of the knee is called the popliteal area.

French tennis player Marian Bartoli has a tested I.Q. of 175, is an artist and a cat lover!

David Ferrer loves to read and keeps every book. He also has a dog and two cats.

Rafael Nadal is the third person in his family to have that name. His grandfather Rafa is a symphony conductor.

Denis Istomin has a bachelor's degree in Physical Culture from the Tashkent University of Physical Culture. '

Janko Tipsarevic has a degree in Sports Management from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Juan Carlos Ferrero was named for the former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I. He owns a hotel, Hotel Ferrero and the Equlite Tennis Academy in Valencia, Spain.

Roger Federer and his wife, Mirka have two sets of twins, two girls and two boys. Rafa is the only one among the Big Four who's not married yet. Come on, Rafa!

The largest breed of cat is the Ragdoll. It is also one of the most laid back cats.

there are small pockets in texas and montana where fedex ground shipping takes one more day (estimated) than it usually does for the rest of the state.

The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, were 7/8 Chinese and only 1/8 "Siamese" (Thai).

Though the ancient Maya people wrote thousands of books, only 4 of them survived. The Maya had an advanced writing system that recorded their history for more than 800 years back, but all of their texts were burned during the Spanish conquest by priests who thought them to be “lies of the devil.”

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a meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum over 1/299,792,458th of a second.

A crunchy food, like a crispy cracker or chip, makes that "crunch" noise because of the formation of "brittle fractures". It wouldn't make any crunch sound at all if the brittle fractures didn't happen- think of the difference between a stale corn chip and a fresh one- more, louder crunch? More "brittle fractures." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersoni ... prov=sfla1

A brittle fracture is a crack formed at an extremely high rate of speed, always at or exceeding 340m/s, (340 meters per second).

340m/s is the speed of sound.

Every crunch is a tiny sonic boom in your mouth.

The International Space Station is larger than an American football field and can be seen from earth with the naked eye.

It's also the second brightest object in the night sky.

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