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    Wettest place on Earth:

    Mawsynram, located in the Meghalaya State in India, is the wettest place in the world. It receives an annual rainfall of 11,871 millimeters.


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    The Aerosol Spray Can
    The cheese slicer
    Nitrogen fertilizer
    TheOoutboard engine
    The franking machine
    The gas turbine
    Contrast dye
    Automatic machine for recirculation of bottles
    The modern handgranade

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    The Onepiece

    Are all Norwegian inventions

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    North Korea and Cuba are the only places you can’t buy Coca-Cola.

    Why?
    Cuba: Coca-Cola opened one of its first bottling plants in Cuba in 1906, but pulled production in 1962 because of a trade embargo, not long after Fidel Castro took over the country.

    North Korea: Since 1950, North Koreans haven’t been able to buy Coke either, thanks to the Korean War breaking out that same year.

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    A cockroach can live a few weeks without its head. It will eventually die of hunger.

    Cockroaches are infamous for their tenacity, and are often cited as the most likely survivors of a nuclear war. Some even claim that they can live without their heads. It turns out that these armchair exterminators (and their professional brethren) are right. Headless roaches are capable of living for weeks. After the cockroach loses its head, very often their necks would seal off just by clotting, There's no uncontrolled bleeding. On the other hand, you cut a humans head off, the human will die of blood loss.

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    On many zippers, you find the letters YKK.

    Those letters stand for "Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha" which, from Japanese, roughly translates to "Yoshida Company Limited." It's a zipper manufacturer named after Tadao Yoshida, who founded it in 1934. By one estimate, the company makes half the zippers on Earth, which is more than 7 billion zippers each year.


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    Bananas have a curved shape because they reach for the sunlight when they grow.

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    ^^ Not to mention that banana trees cannot be grown in a straight line, because banana trees actually move! :O

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    Guinness estimates that 93,000 liters of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK alone. lol

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    Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times

    In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages for their patients. Spider webs supposedly have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection. It's also said that spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which helps promote clotting. So, next time you're out of Band-Aids, just head to your attic and grab some "webicillin."

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