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Everyone has a unique tongue print.

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5 Surprising Ways Cold Affects Your Body

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7 Terms You Didn’t Realize Are Trademarked

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5 Wild Facts About Reindeer

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Pringles inventor Fredric Baur’s ashes were buried in a Pringles can.

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Medieval Scotland had a practice similar to modern battle rap, called ‘flyting.’

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Eggo waffles were originally called Froffles.

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Penguins have knees — you just can’t see them.

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  1. The @ symbol was invented more than 400 years before email. 

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  2. At least 31 languages have a word very similar to ‘huh?’

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  3. Antarctica has active volcanoes.

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  4. As common eating utensils, chopsticks in Asia are about 2,000 years older than the fork in Europe.

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  5. Bananas are curved because they grow toward the sun.

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  6. Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ originally included Jesus’ feet.

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