The year 2023 was a weird one when it comes to animals and cocaine. First came the movie Cocaine Bear, loosely based on the real story of a black bear that devoured a discarded cocaine shipment. A few months later, the Discovery Channel broadcast the documentary Cocaine Sharks. It speculated that sharks could be in …
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These fun facts about tears won’t make you cry and may even surprise you. Like you make gallons and gallons of tears every year, for instance? Tears are similar to your saliva in that they’re mostly made of water. They also have salt, fatty oils, and more than 1,500 different proteins. Tears have electrolytes like …
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These monkey fun facts may surprise you! What do you already know about monkeys? The Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys are the furriest and they live in the cold snowy mountains of China. The loudest monkeys are Howler monkeys, they are also the loudest land animal with howls so loud they are heard up to three miles …
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Hearing someone talk about “stars that should not be” sounds unnerving at best to an average person. The phrase brings to mind something about ancient prophecies, biblical visions of the apocalypse, and dormant evils from beyond time and space. To astro nerds, however, this all is very exciting. That’s because what we’re actually talking about …
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What do you know about the onion? We eat a lot of them so why not know a lot about them? Sliced onion can soothe insect bites and skin burns. On average, Americans each eat about 18.8 pounds of onions per year. In comparison, that’s 350 semi-truck loads of onions each day. New York was …
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Nature can be a cruel place. There’s only so much food, territory, and other resources to go around, so animals often fight tooth and nail for them. But what if a natural disaster cut the availability of resources even further? You’d probably expect the animals to get even more aggressive in their fight for survival. …
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So many of us have braces, but do you know these fun facts about braces? Million Of Americans Are Currently In Braces According to the American Association of Orthodontics, there are 4 million people that currently wearing braces. There are about 1 million orthodontics patients that are over the age of 18. Did you know …
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Do you know these fun facts about pot? It used to be used as medicine, even back in the day! Cannabis can trigger or worsen psychotic symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and paranoia especially in people with a genetic vulnerability or those who started using it young. The first use of cannabis on record was in …
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If you knew about marijuana, how much would you say you know? Whether you smoke pot or not, it’s more common then ever, legal depending on where you are and helpful to almost all that consume it. The most well-known and used cannabinoid is tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. THC is the ingredient responsible for the psychoactive …
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The last of all the Grand Canyon fun facts you need to know. What have you thought so far? There are 91 species of mammals, 447 species of birds, 58 species of reptiles and 18 species of fish, five of which are native,) located in Grand Canyon National Park. There are some records for the …