Category: Weird

Each year, thousands of babies die suddenly and unexpectedly, and more than 3,300 young lives were lost in 2020. Rates remained stubbornly high in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, even as overall infant mortality dropped to a record

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The rate of premature birth in the United States is climbing, according to the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes.

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Why did the guy take cigarettes with him while scuba diving? And what exactly does the mermaid do with the cigarettes? Use them as jewelry? House Beautiful – May 1956

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You weigh less if you visit certain areas of Canada, namely the Hudson Bay Area and parts of Quebec, because there’s less gravity there than other parts of the world.

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Brussels sprouts used to have a bitter taste until breeders in the 90s started cross-pollinating different varieties to remove the chemicals that caused the bitterness. Their work has led to Brussels sprouts’ recent culinary popularity.

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Harambe’s mother, only full brother, and two of his half-siblings..

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What if doctors could just print a kidney, using cells from the patient, instead of having to find a donor match and hope the patient’s body doesn’t reject the transplanted kidney?

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March 12, 2023March 12, 2023

The Curiosity rover just sent back a stunning postcard capturing its view of a shimmering sunset on Mars.

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The writers of “The Simpsons” are brilliant, but they did not foresee the March 2023 Silicon Valley Bank crash.

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It’s easy to have a sense of gratitude when things are going your way or when holidays, like Thanksgiving, dictate it. But just as showing love shouldn’t be reserved only for good times and special occasions like anniversaries, being grateful

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Waterfowl not the dominant feature? What are you, a criminal?

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Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, an activist from Malawi, is one of six recipients of the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize. Majiga-Kamoto has been instrumental in implementing Malawi’s ban on thin plastics.; Credit: /Goldman Environmental Prize Julia Simon | NPR For Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, her

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Research has shown that men are more likely to overestimate the interest of an attractive woman. In contrast, women have been known to underestimate a male’s desire for them.  [1, 2]

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mindblowingfactz: A Honey Badger in a South African wildlife center escaped his enclosure twice to fight the lions in the exhibit beside his, built towers out of rocks and sticks to climb over his wall, and when introduced with a

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mindblowingfactz: Giant 6ft otters still exist in three remote river systems of South America. They hunt in packs and can even take on crocodiles. Photo :  Araguaia.org / wikimedia  

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As the morning sun peeked through the trees, Rodger Kram readied himself for the coming marathon. But not the kind he used to run. Kram, a physiologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, stood next to undergrad James Wilson at

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