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Interesting Facts - Page 213
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The "KGB walk" is a walk exhibited in KGB agents, where their dominant hand stays in place while walking, ready to pull out a gun at any moment. This can be supposedly be seen in former KGB agents such as Vladimir Putin.
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Greenland sharks live life in the slow lane. With a lifespan estimated at 250–500 years, they are the world's longest live vertebrate. They don't even reach sexual maturity until age 150, and their pups are born after a gestation period of 8 to 18 years.
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There is a man-killing crocodile named Gustave who roams the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi. He has been rumored to have killed as many as 300 people, although other estimates place the true number at "fewer than 60".
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GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic are originally based on a peptide found in the venom of Gila monsters.
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Things do get better sometimes. In the 1950s, a baby born in the U.S. with cystic fibrosis would live on average only 6 months. Over the decades, this gradually increased. By 2016, life expectancy had reached 47.7 years. Then, in 2019, a new drug called Trikafta was approved. Today, a baby born with cystic fibrosis has the potential to live as long as anyone else.
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Note: I'm a little skeptical of this one. It seems kind of silly. How many times would a KGB officer really need to shoot someone? But I watched some videos and Putin seemed to be doing it. Sort of. Kind of. Maybe?
But why don't you test it by putting 99° C water and 1° C water in the freezer and timing how long it takes to freeze?
YouTube was supposed to be a video dating site.
James Garfield, the 20th president of the USA, was very intelligent and could write in Greek with his right hand, Latin with his left, and speak German at the same time.
Gerald Ford, the 38th president, was drafted by the Packers and Lions but declined to go to Yale Law School.
During his term, James Polk secretly purchased a number of enslaved children for his Mississippi cotton plantation.
Calvin Coolidge replied, “You lose,” to a visitor who bet she could get at least three words out of him.
Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton are all GRAMMY winners.
Two presidents, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Egypt has more people in 2025 than the Mongol Empire did in 1279
Palm Springs North, Florida is south of Palm Springs, Florida
Caracol, Belize had over 100,000 people in 800 B.C.
No city in Belize in 2024 has over 75,000.
1 in 3 People in Crowley County, CO is incarcerated.
The country with the most active separatist movements is India, followed by Russia