Glass has been recycled for almost 3,000 years. It never wears out as a raw material. Just one recycled clear glass bottle saves enough energy from the manufacturing process to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

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The British colonizers in Sierra Leone used the same tactic of cutting of hands to account for bullets spent as used in the Congo

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Vikings sold narwhal tusks as unicorn horns for centuries during medieval times, cementing European belief in unicorns and leading to the characteristic portrayal of unicorns having long, spiraling horns.

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When floating ice melts, the water level actually stays the same. Apparently the difference in density between water and ice is exactly 1:1 to the percentage of the ice that floats above the water(aka it's not displacing water)

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Doctors can have you ingest a camera the size of a pill that'll take photos of your digestive system, and you don't even need to collect it afterwards.

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Dizhou Tong the man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the cultural revolution.

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The first ingredient in Nutella is sugar and in fact it contains over 50% sugar.

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In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollution with their poop that automobiles were seen as the “green” alternative.

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Narcissists are more likely to be happier then regular people.

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