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Teeth are
coated in enamel which is not a living tissue.
It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. It's considered animal
abuse because they're social beings and get lonely.
The Ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health -
hence why we 'raise a toast'.
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. They also have an open circulatory
system, which means they have no arteries and their organs float directly in blood.
Amy Poehler was only seven years older than Rachel McAdams when she took on the
role of "cool mom" in Mean Girls. Rachel was 25 as Regina George - Amy was 32 as
her mum.
People are more creative in the shower. When we take a warm shower, we experience
an increased dopamine flow that makes us more creative.
Baby rabbits are called kits. Cute!
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. It was apparently chosen because of
its connection with dominance and chivalry as well as purity and innocence in
Celtic mythology.
The first airplane flew on December 17, 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright made four
brief flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with their first powered aircraft, aka
the first airplane.
Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise. It travels around the sun once every
225 Earth days but it rotates clockwise once every 243 days.
Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that
has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.
A 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy became the most expensive bottle of wine
ever sold at auction in 2018, going for $558,000 (approx £439,300). The bottle of
1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby for more than 17 times its original estimate of
$32,000.
Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the
international sporting events awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture and
architecture. Shame it didn't catch on, the famous pottery scene in Ghost could
have won an Olympic medal as well as an Academy Award for the best screenplay.