The “folds” in a Chefs Hat are meant to represent the many different ways the chef can cook an egg.

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Many English words used to be spelled phonetically (e.g. debt was ‘det’) until some scholars purposely added silent letters to make them look more like Greek or Latin words, sometimes erroneously.

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There is just one insect species native to Antarctica called Belgica Antarctica.

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Honey badgers emits smelly, suffocating secretions from its anal glands to fumigate hives, causing bees to flee and leave their honey for the honey badger

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The hacker group Anonymous once sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all of their ink cartridges.

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Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The scent is from water interacting with plant oils.

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Female sand tiger sharks get pregnant with up to 50 embryos. When one of the embryos reaches some 10 cm (4 inches) in length, it eats all the smaller embryos so that only one large embryo remains.

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In a 2011 attempt to reduce poo on the streets, anyone handing a bag of dog poop in New Taipei City, Taiwan, was entered into a lottery for gold ingots and other prizes.

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During the segregation in South Africa, there was a pencil test where on would be classified as non-white/non-European. One would put a pencil into their hair and shake their head, when it fell out, you were deemed white.

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European Royal Families had a “Court Jew” to handle finances and negotiate loans since usury was forbidden by the Catholic Church.

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There’s a very poor village in Paraguay that has turned items found in the dump into instruments for their youth orchestra.

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Hot water freezes faster than cold water and the effect is called “the Mpemba Effect”. It’s named after Tanzanian Erasto Mpemba who was originally ridiculed for bringing it up in class after noticing his warmer ice cream mix was freezing before the cooler batch.

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Taking fenugreek not only promotes lactation in nursing mothers, but it also makes sweat and urine smell like maple syrup.

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Bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals.

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Babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.

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Some of the shooting stars we see are actually astronaut poop burning up in the atmosphere.

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The words "lesbian" and "sapphic" both come from this legendary woman named Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos

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