The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
~ Aaron Machado ~
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You're Most Likely to Die on Your Birthday
According to research published in the Annals of Epidemiology, people over 60 have a 14 percent higher chance of dying on their birthday than on any other day.
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Your Dog Is as Smart as Your ToddlerAccording to the American Psychological Association, dogs are approximately as intelligent as your average two-year-old and can understand more than 150 words. Also much like a toddler, dogs can deceive people and other animals when they want a treat.
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McDonald's Serves Spaghetti in the PhilippinesAmericans who like fast food might be used to ordering a Quarter Pounder or a Filet-O-Fish from McDonald's, but the chain offers a variety of different items on their menus around the world to suit local tastes. If you're in the Philippines, you can order a combo that includes a chicken drumstick and spaghetti—or more specifically, a one-piece Chicken McDo with McSpaghetti.
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Google Was Nearly Called BackRub
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin created what we now know Google back in 1996, they initially called it BackRub. The name was a nod to the way the search engine analyzed the web's "back links" to determine how important a site was. A year later, Page and Brin decided they needed to upgrade to a name that indicated just how much data they were indexing. Eventually, they came up with "Google," a take on the number "googolplex," which is the digit 1 followed by 10100 zeroes.
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The Winner of the North American Wife Carrying Championship Gets Their Spouse's Weight in BeerIf you're the big winner of the North American Wife Carrying Championship—which literally involves carrying your significant other through a lengthy obstacle course as fast as you can without dropping them—you'll be awarded with your spouse's weight in beer and five times her weight in cash.
In order to figure out how much that is, the wife gets up on a seesaw and cases of beer are placed on the other side until the two sides even out. The winner can also choose to compete at the World Championship held annually in Finland where the activity originated.
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Turkeys SingIf you play music for a turkey, it might just sing along with it.
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Pizza Hut Used to Buy More Kale Than Anyone in the U.S.Back when Pizza Hut had salad bars, the chain was the largest purchaser of kale in the United States. However, that kale wasn't making it into salad: It was just used to spruce up the look of the salad bar. My, how times have changed.
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Divers Found the Remains of a 27,000-Year-Old Giant Sloth Stuck in a SinkholeIn 2014, while divers in central Belize were looking for Mayan artifacts in a deep sinkhole, they came across something a lot older—the remains of a giant sloth that got stuck and died a staggering 27,000 years ago. To be precise, it was a humerus, femur, and a tooth that they found, which helped them determine the animal's age.
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A Flock of Ravens Is Called an "Unkindness" or a "Conspiracy"If you ever spot a flock of ravens hanging out together, what you're seeing is called an "unkindness" or a "conspiracy." Hmm, suspicious, indeed.
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In Michigan, You're Never Further than Six Miles from a Body of WaterkNo matter where you are in the state, you'll never be more than six miles from a body of water. On top of that, you'll also be within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes.
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Cell Phones Are Illegal in One West Virginia TownIn Green Bank, West Virginia, no wireless signals are allowed, because they could interfere with the operation of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's radio telescope.
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A Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Is Either Called a "Grolar Bear" or "Pizzly Bear"There are grizzly bears and there are polar bears, and when the two come together to make a little bear baby, it's called either a "grolar bear" (the offspring of a male grizzly and a female polar bear) or a "pizzly bear" (the offspring of a male polar bear and a female grizzly). Generally, the animals have a shape that resembles a grizzly with a lighter color that's inherited from the polar bear.
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Oysters Can Change SexesOysters that were initially male can become female over time. That's because, in oysters, sex is determined partly by environment.
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