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Cleopatra lived closer in history to the moon landings, than to the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

The release of the original Jurassic Park movie was closer in time to the moon landings than to today.
 
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Did you know when the first pizza Margherita was created?

''If there is one name with which the invention of pizza can be associated, it is certainly that of Raffaele Esposito, owner of the historic Neapolitan tavern “Pizzeria di Pietro e Basta Così“.

It would have been him, in 1889, who dedicated a pizza to Queen Margherita of Savoy, after whom the queen of pizzas was named.

The ingredients used were intended to represent the Italian tricolor: tomato for the red, mozzarella for the white, and finally basil for the green. Pizza was a great success in the Kingdom of Naples, but it was not successful in adjacent territories until the early 1900s.''

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Did You know what the unique fact about pigeons is?

Pigeons have a unique ability to find their way back to their nest from as far as 1,300 miles away! Even more impressive is that they are able to do so even if they were unable to see or hear where they were transported to and had no idea what direction they've moved in.


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6 Surprising Pigeon Facts | Suburban Exterminating

You may think you know enough about pigeons, but hold on. Surprise yourself with these amazing facts about this symbol of our city, the "flying rat."
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Did You Know what is it called when you are born and died on the same day?

It sounds spooky, but 'birthday-perisher' has actually been coined as the official term for someone who has died on their birthday. While the term states what has happened – and is generally used in professional environments when discussing someone dying on their birthday – we don't exactly love it. Do you?

What’s the symbolism behind dying on your birthday?​

Whether you’re Jewish or not, you’ll likely take comfort in learning that the Talmud (the central text of Rabbinic Judaism) says that dying on your birthday is considered special and ‘perfect’. It’s believed that Moses died on his 120th birthday (pretty old, we know) and that his life was complete because it started and ended on the same day – like a perfect circle. The Jewish people believe that dying on your birthday means you have achieved the mission you were born to achieve, and that’s something worth celebrating.

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The Meaning Behind Dying on your Birthday

Yep, there’s symbolism behind dying on your birthday. And nope, it’s not as grim as you might think.
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Did you know that your our signature could reveal personality traits?

in 2016 purports that among men, a larger signature correlates with higher social bravado and, among women, a bigger signature correlates with narcissistic traits.

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Careful:

Graphology - Wikipedia
Graphology has been controversial for more than a century. Although proponents point to positive testimonials as anecdotal evidence of its utility for personality evaluation, these claims have not been supported by scientific studies.[1][7] It has been rated as among the most discredited methods of psychological analysis by a survey of mental health professionals.[8]
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graphology - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
Graphologists, or graphoanalyists, examine loops, dotted "i's" and crossed "t's," letter spacing, slants, heights, ending strokes, upslant pressure, downslant pressure, etc., but they believe that such handwriting minutiae are physical manifestations of unconscious mental functions. Graphologists believe such details can reveal as much about a person as astrology , palm reading, psychometry, rumpology, or the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator. However, there is no evidence that the unconscious mind is a reservoir of truth about a person, much less that graphology provides a gateway to that reservoir.
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Adrian Furnham writes:​
Readers familiar with the techniques of cold reading will be able to understand why graphology appears to work and why so many (otherwise intelligent) people believe in it.
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Not every website that has the word "science" in it is necessarily scientific.
 
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Did you know that the popular Christmas song, Jingle Bells, was originally written as a Thanksgiving song?
 
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Did You Know that the youngest (official) mother was only 5 yrs of age, when she gave birth to a boy?


This is such a tragic and sad story. Having been raped at the age of 5 and giving birth to a baby boy (born on September 23, 1933,) who later died at the age of 40!

"Lina Medina was only five years old when a doctor discovered she was seven months pregnant. And on May 14, 1939, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Gerardo."​

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She Became History's Youngest Mother — When She Was Just 5 Years Old

Some say it was a hoax, but most experts believe it was a true story.
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Did you know presentism isn’t a good way of viewing the world. Not related to anything neither is species bias, or racial bias, or other/normative biases. But I digress.
 
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