Useless trivia and facts

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King Tut’s parents were probably brother and sister.

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Mummies can explode when the gases inside build up during decomposition.

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In the 1600s, doctors sometimes prescribed ground-up mummies as medicine. It was called mummia.

lis

The Great Wall of China was completed 2 years after the first telephone call.

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Rats can laugh when tickled—scientists discovered it with tiny electrodes, and the sound is ultrasonic (too high for us to hear).

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In 1961, Soviet surgeon Leonid Rogozov performed an appendectomy on himself in Antarctica, using only a mirror and local anesthesia.

lis

Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the first moon landing than the building of the pyramids of Giza

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Bodies can remain sitting up for years if buried in certain bogs, because of the preservation effect of the acidic water.

lis

Wooly mammoths survived into the age of the pyramids.

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The Ancient Greeks believed people with red hair turned into vampires after they died.