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4311/
Naked mole rats are the only hairless mammals. They live in
underground colonies with up to 300 inhabitants. Like social
insects such as bees or termites, only the “queen”
naked mole rat has babies.
4312/
In Iowa, it is illegal for a man with a moustache to kiss
a woman in public.
4313/ When you
see two rainbows, the sky is brighter inside the main rainbow
and outside the secondary rainbow: it’s darker between
the two rainbows.
4314/ Texas has
a town named… Nameless.
4315/ The biggest
planet in the Solar System has the shortest day: giant Jupiter
spins round once in only 9 hours 50 minutes.
4316/ In 1767,
English surgeon John Hunter deliberately injected himself
with pus from a patient with gonorrhea, to prove how the infection
was spread. Unfortunately, the patient also had syphilis…
and so the experiment led to untimely Hunter’s death.
4317/ The first
country to give women the vote was New Zealand – in
1893.
4318/ The phrase
“mad as a hatter” derives from the mercurous nitrate
used in the manufacture of felt hats. The hat-maker suffered
mercury poisoning, which to trembling, confusion and incoherent
speech.
4319/ In 1949,
Popular Mechanics magazine predicted “computers in the
future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons”.
4320/ The Cordyceps
fungus procreates by infecting caterpillars with its spores.
The growing fungus kills the caterpillar, turning its body
into a wooden mummy with a new fruiting body growing out of
the caterpillar’s head.
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