If you own any chickens in Quitman, Georgia, it’s illegal to let them
cross the road. Simply put, the law essentially wants owners to have
their chickens under control at all times.
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source: wtffunfact.com
Some Japanese and East Asian people have dry, white earwax. It’s not uncommon to see black cotton sticks in stores that are used to clean their ears. The same gene is said to also make it to where you have little to no body odor!
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Native Americans created a universal sign language known as Hand Talk in the mid-1500’s, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.
None of The Beatles, considered by many to be the greatest musical act in history, are able to read or write sheet music.
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Hippo’s have a red sweat (with hipposudoric and norhipposudoric acid pigments) which has both a sunscreen and antibiotic property for when they need to leave the water during the day and endure the sun in order to eat additional vegetation.
Underneath the avenues and boulevards of southern Paris, France, there are catacombs/ossuaries holding the remains of more than six million people.
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Coral are extremely agressive and territorial. They will form colonies
and will fight other coral colonies to the death to defend or expand
their own territories.
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The first man made object to enter the stratosphere was a shell from a
German Paris gun. A massive artillery weapon designed to be able to hit
the city of paris from up to 80 miles away. It could fire so high that
the Earths rotation had to be taken in account so the cannon could hit
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One of the original suggestions as a name for Twitter was ‘Friendstalker’, but it was dismissed as too creepy. Other options included ‘Vibrate’ and ‘Jitter’.
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