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Strippers make more money in tips when they are ovulating. A study followed strippers for 2 months and showed that they earn about $75 to $150 more per shift during ovulation. Source

Your future password will be your pulse. The Nymi is a wristband that you can tap against a terminal to verify your identity with your pulse pattern. Fingerprints and PIN numbers can be easily copied or stolen, but your heartbeat is unique to you and can’t be replicated. Source

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The first line of code ever written by a U.S. president was moveForward(100);. Barack Obama sat with students who were learning JavaScript through a tutorial game based on the movie Frozen. The President’s code was a function that moved Elsa’s character forward 100 pixels. Source

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The sun isn’t yellow, it’s white. We see it as a particular color because of the light that’s able to pass through the atmosphere. Most photos of the sun have been altered to be the color that we are used to seeing, but in space it’s just white.

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2014 is “Ebola Fighters.” Photographers took over 20 portraits in 12 locations around the world to highlight the people who are working to stop the Ebola epidemic. Source

There’s a new app that lets you be a stranger’s alarm clock. Wakie is a ‘social alarm clock’ that lets you wake up (and be woken up) by a stranger. Users report a newfound love of mornings because they start their day off with a friendly call from people all over the world. Source

Men prefer bigger breasts for scientific reasons. A series of studies found that men who make less money, want to have kids someday, and are hungry (at the time of the study) prefer larger breasts, while men who are financially secure, don’t want kids, and are full from a recent meal are more likely to enjoy small breasts. Source

In 2014, Facebook’s top 5 most talked-about topics worldwide were 1. World Cup, 2. Ebola, 3. Elections in Brazil, 4. Robin Williams, 5. Ice Bucket Challenge. Source

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Your dog can hear your sadness. Researchers recently discovered that dogs have a specific section of their brain that only exists to process the human voice and its emotion. Humans also have a specific section of brain that only processes dog vocalizations.

10 year-old Willie Myrick was saved by the gospel. After being abducted from his front yard, he sang the song “Every Praise” for 3 hours straight until his kidnapper finally kicked him out of the car. He later met gospel singer Hezekiah Walker and they sang the song as a duet. Source

Making out is good for your body. An intense makeout session can double your metabolic rate, and can burn up to 2 calories per minute. Source

When George Lucas sold his company to Disney, he vowed to donate most of his $4 billion Star Wars wealth to education. He launched his own foundation to improve grades k-12, because he believes education is the key to the survival of the human race. Source

The stones of Puma Punku shouldn’t even exist. They are so precisely cut that even a razor blade can’t fit through their interlocking joints, a technology that didn’t exist until centuries later. The Inca believed this ancient temple had been built by the gods who created the world. Source

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Cats have whiskers so they can sense danger. When their whiskers brush against an object, cats can tell the exact location, size, and texture of it - even in the dark. They also use whiskers to determine whether they can fit in a tight space, and to detect approaching dangers.

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Following your heart could be the key to happiness, literally. People who are the most aware of their own heartbeat have better intuition and are better at feeling, expressing, and recognizing emotions. Those who are less aware of their bodies feel more disconnected and have a higher rate of depression.

Your beard is making you healthier. Growing a beard has actual health benefits, such as preventing allergies, asthma attacks, and rashes, and protecting your skin from the sun. Source

Doctors’ unsanitized stethoscopes transmit more germs than their hands. A recent study showed that stethoscopes are very germy because while most doctors wash their hands regularly, many of them forget to clean their stethoscopes. Source

If someone says you’re blind as a bat, they’re actually complimenting your vision. Bats can see extremely well. They use echolocation to find the distance between themselves and their prey, not to “see” them. Source

You can tour the Smithsonian without leaving your house. Washington D.C.’s National Museum of Natural History has a virtual tour of the entire museum that you can navigate with your desktop or mobile phone. Source

If you’re talking about the North Pole, you’ll need to be more specific because there’s actually 7 of them: geographic north pole (true north), magnetic north pole, geomagnetic north pole, instantaneous north pole, celestial north pole, north pole of inaccessibility, and lastly, the town of North Pole, Alaska. Source

(This also works for Facebook videos and SoundCloud, you type: “Magic” between ‘Face’ and ‘Book’ and in between ‘Sound’ and ‘Cloud’. For more details about this, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fc5hJjSlSY)

The telegraph was invented because of heartbreak. When Samuel Morse left town to paint a portrait, his wife suddenly fell ill and died. Because it took days for him to find out she had been sick, he was so upset that he abandoned his art career and focused on developing a fast method for long-distance communication. Source

Apple has a patent for a system that can protect your iPhone if you drop it. The system can re-orient your phone during a fall and change the angle of impact to prevent as much damage as possible. Source

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A woman stopped eating to save people during WWII. Everyone was worried about nutrition because of food rations, so scientist Elsie Widdowson ate small amounts of bread, cabbage, and potatoes for months. She climbed mountains every day to prove that very little food was still enough. Her experiment formed the basic wartime diet of Britain. Source

People who grew up without color television have different dreams. In the 1940s, 75% of Americans claimed they “rarely” or “never” dreamed in color. But recent studies show that now only 12% report dreaming in black-and-white. Source

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In 1984, all Koko the gorilla wanted for Christmas was her own pet cat. When she was given a toy cat instead, she refused to play with it and signed the word “sad” until they finally gave her a real one.