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In 2010, there was a major traffic jam in China that lasted for over ten days. A man's penis really does have a mind of its own. Cold weather does not cause colds. Women who vacation more than once a year have less depression as well as greater relationship satisfaction Americans have more sex than anyone else in the world. Sitting up straight can make a guy feel more powerful and increase his self-confidence, as well as his pain tolerance. Salvador Dali would avoid paying tabs by drawing on cheques. The drawing would be too valuable to cash the cheques. Consuming large amounts of sugar, overeating, not sleeping enough and smoking are all brain damaging habits. A man once tried to blow up the Eiffel Tower because its light was shining into his bedroom, keeping him awake at night. Macaque monkeys in Japan have learned to steal purse, wallets, take the coins and use them to buy snacks from vending machines. Tetris is so addictive because of our deep-seated psy...

In the UK, adult characters on cereal packets look straight ahead, while children's characters look down at a 9.6 degree angle. Sloths only defecate about once a week. A Wiltshire town is confirmed as the longest continuous settlement in the United Kingdom, according to a 2014 study. There can be up to 30 security features on a single bank note. The code A113 is implanted in every Pixar movie. In 2014, Sony developed a new storage tape that is able to hold up to 185 terabytes of data per cartridge. A decade before the Internet became mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone. Of all the religions, Hinduism celebrates the most festivals. Hindus spend 39 days a year recognizing the birthdays and milestones of hundreds of deities. The world's biggest hailstone fell in 2010 in USA. It had a diameter of 20.3 cm and weighed 878 grams. Eating an apple a day can boost sexual pleasure in healthy wom...

Studies show being 'grateful' helps you make better decisions and investments. Thinking of the future is usually what keeps people up at night, thinking of the past can usually help you sleep. Men who help around in the house tend to get laid more often. Singing when you are tensed helps you avoid depression and anxiety. An US cult leader once gave 600 acres of land to God but the state of Pennsylvania took possession and sold it because God didn't pay his taxes. According to a study of 2017, the world's 25 million metric tonnes of spiders eat 400-800 million tonnes of insects every year - equivalent to the amount of meat and fish that humans consume over the same period. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows....

Part tricycle, part gyrocopter, the $295,000 Pal V Bike can travel up to 112 mph on roads and fly for up to 300 miles at altitudes up to 4,000 feet. "Glamping" is a real word. It is a combination of "glamour" and "camping". According to a report of 2017, humans have created more than 8 billion metric tons of plastic since its large-scale production began in the early 1950s. The higher ever recorded score at Scrabble was 392 for the word "caziques" at a tournament in Manchester. "Huh?" means the same thing in every language. In 2012, a billionaire offered $65m to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter. A team of researchers have found that "Pad kid poured curd pulled cod" is the world's hardest tongue twister. A lipogram novel, written by Ernest Vincent Wright called Gadsby, does not contain the letter E. The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way Galaxy at the rate of 110 kilometers p...

AMOLED   Stands for active-matrix organic light-emitting diode. A new type of display technology used in mobile devices and televisions, and in the monitors of some digital cameras. Has several advantages over LCD, including using less power. Aperture  Behind the lens of your camera is a movable circular iris which opens and closes to control the amount of light falling on the sensor. This is usually controlled by the light meter, although some cameras have a manual aperture control. Altering the aperture also changes the depth of field. Artefacts  When an image is stored in your camera's memory it has to be compressed to fit, usually into a JPEG file, and in the process some information is inevitably lost. When the image is uncompressed for viewing, noise creeps in and appears as angular blocks in the image, which are known as artefacts. Autofocus  Almost all digital cameras have automatic focusing. There are essentially two types: contrast detection, used...

RU SITD or gr8 @ texting? If you don't know what any of that means, then here's a handy glossary to help you decipher some of the more popularly used text language and what the abbreviations and Net lingo mean. 2moro Tomorrow   2nte Tonight   AEAP As Early as Possible ALAP As Late as Possible ASAP As Soon as Possible ASL Age/Sex/Location B3 Blah, Blah, Blah B4YKI Before You Know it BFF Best Friends, Forever BM&Y Between Me and You BRB Be Right Back BRT Be right There BTAM Be that as it May   C-P Sleepy   CTN Cannot talk now CUS See You Soon   CWOT Complete Waste of Time CYT See You Tomorrow   E123 Easy as 1, 2, 3   EM? Excuse Me?   EOD End of Day   F2F Face to Face   FC Fingers Crossed FOAF Friend of a Friend GR8 Great   HAK Hugs and Kisses   IDC I Don't Care IDK I Don't K...