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    If you overdose yourself on enough vitamin A it will turn your skin an orange like color. In the time before tanning bed and spray tans, body builders used to do this in order to give their skin an orange glow to look more tanned for competitions.
     
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    When a person cries and the first tear comes from the right eye it means happiness, but if the first tear comes from the left eye it means a person is sad or in pain.
     
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    Eating strawberries can help to whiten your teeth.
     
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    Here's a fact about science. Democritus hypothesized the existence of atoms back in the 5th century BC. It wasn't until well over 2000 years later that we finally found evidence for their existence.
     
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    Don't feel bad. I am 100% Puerto Rican, but grew up in the US. I work as a professional interpret of Spanish/English for the US Federal Courts. There are certain accents of Spanish spoken in Spain that I understand with less clarity than I understand Brazilian Portuguese. I hear it and I'm like, "Open your mouth and ENUNCIATE!!"
     
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    Did you know there was a U.S. President that changed his name before becoming President? Yeah Bill Clinton was so whipped he took Hillary's last name when they got married...I'm kidding but the fact is true. Gerald Ford was not really Gerald Ford, technically. He was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. He later changed his name when his mother divorced his abusive alcoholic father and remarried. Ford took the name of his step-father, Gerald Rudolph Ford.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford
     
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    The roe of gar is poisonous, but the roe of its prehistoric cousin, the grinnel (aka mud-fish, choupique, bowfin) is said to be better tasting than that of North American paddlefish
     
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    Garball is incredibly more in love with fish than a human should be.
     
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    Not as mush as a Led Zepplin groupie ;).
     
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    I bet John Bobbit wished humans could do this:

    A lot of people know that sea slugs have both male and female organs, but here is another cool fact. After mating, a sea slug's penis breaks off, and it regenerates a new one.
     
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    Here's a good one, though scholars and academics disagree on, to the nearest 1,000,000, the mistakes and factual errors made in the movie 300 (Yes, I know it's based on a graphic novel, that doesn't make things any better - in fact it only makes things worse) at the Battle of Thermopylae there was slightly more on the Greek side than a mere 300 Spartans. that was just the number of Spartan hoplites at the battle. there were in fact 1200 people from Sparta at the battle, and just over 1,000 Arcadians - people from central Peloponnese. In fact, historians think the total Greek forces combined was between 6,000 and 7,000, slightly more than the 300 in the film.
     
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    If only The Rock's Arcadian Scorpion King character had been there, the Spartans would have won the battle.
     
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    A total number was quite bigger as @Lewdog said. :)
    But even in real events there was a traitor who showed the Persians a way to surround Greeks. Leonidas noticed the trick in time and sent almost all of his army away. He then defended Thermopyle with 300 Spartans and 700 other soldiers (I guess the Athens'?).
    So Leonidas defended Greece with big force, but only in the end he had a host of 300 and 700, like the movie showed. :)
     
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    I guess my personal feelings about that movie were apparent in that last post? :p
     
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    Oh, also, useless Shakespeare fact: because drama was so unrespected in the Elizabethian world Shakespeare's company worked in essentially London's red light district, and it's thought between acts patrons of the theature would visit the nearby brothels. And because it was located so close to vice, if you look closely (or rather, not closely at all) you'll find the plays - even the 'serious' tragedies - are practically overflowing with dick jokes. Including what is clearly an act of fallatio on stage during King Henry IV part 1.

    Doesn't stop there either, during the first on-stage confrontation between Coriolanus and his at-first nemesis Aufidus, if you modernize the language the two men are clearly saying the idea of fighting each other is so attractive it's creating sexual tension between the two.
     
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    I'm giving much more than one of these per day!

    Did you know that the Baby Ruth candy bar is NOT named after famous baseball player Babe Ruth? It is actually named after former President Grover Clevelend's daughter Ruth.
     
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    Oddly I was talking to some history major friends of mine today, and they told me there are over a 1,000,001 historical inaccuracies in the movie Sin City. I never thought that was even possible. :oops:
     
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    At least that's the story that the makers stick to, but they only gave that origin behind the name after suing the real Babe Ruth to stop him from using his own name for a different brand of candy. It's pure coincidence that they made and sold the candy down the street from where he played at the height of his fame. They totally re-named their candy after the dead daughter of a president from 3 decades before... :rolleyes:
     
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    Noel Neill, who portrayed reporter Lois Lane not only in the 1950s Adventures of Superman,but also in the Saturday morning Superman movie serials in the 1940s, aspired to be a journalist before she turned to acting.
     
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    February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
     
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    Did you know:

    The inventor of the television was not that Scottish bloke everyone thinks it was.

    None of the high-tech machines that Leo DaVinci apparently 'invented' such as the tank and the helicopter could actually work if built.

    Bruce Dickinson, the singer for Iron Maiden, is a qualified airline pilot, talented fencer, and is a conservative Euro Skeptic.

    Dr. Dre is not an accredited academic or medical professional. (This one might be a joke - sorry everyone)
     
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    Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938.
     
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    Hooch is the yellowish liquor that separates out from sourdough starter.
     
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    Wendy's restaurants were started in Columbus, Ohio.
     
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    With each testicle weighing over 100o lbs, the Right whale literally has a ton of balls, 10 times larger than a blue whale's. However, the record for testes to body weight goes to the tuberous bushcricket whose testicles account for almost 15% of its weight.

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