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The first archeological evidence of soup show it was made of hippopotamus
Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish - anchovies
Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma.

Before the invention of modern toothpaste, from Roman times up to as recently as the 18th century, there is evidence that people used to whiten their teeth using urine. Sometimes their own, but mostly other people's

Light doesn’t always travel at ‘the speed of light’. It only travels 186,000 miles per second when travelling through a vacuum. When light passes through matter, it slows down. The slowest light has ever been recorded moving at is a 38mph, while passing through an ultra-cold gas of sodium atoms.

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
After the decaffeinating process, processing companies no longer throw the caffeine away; they sell it to pharmaceutical companies.

A Blue Earth, Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the telephone unless monitored by a parent.
A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.

Taurine, the main ingredient in Red Bull, is an extract of the stomach lining of cows.
Thanks to the electric light, the average American today sleeps 1.5 hours less than 60 years ago.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

The North Atlantic right whale is believed to have the largest testicles of any mammal. The male's testes account for around 1% of its total bodyweight, and each of them can weight up to 525kg. That's roughly the weight of a medium-sized racehorse.

In 1960, sleep researcher Ian Oswald of the University of Edinburgh performed an experiment to see if volunteers would be able to fall asleep even if he tape their eyelids open. The answer, it turned out, was yes.

High-heeled shoes were originally invented in the early 1500s for soldiers, to stop their feet slipping out of the stirrups while they were on horseback. They quickly became fashionable, for both men and women, in the French court.

In the 18th century, the Humane Society installed smoke enema kits at various points along the river Thames, so that drowning victims could be revived by having tobacco smoke blown up their rectum - a popular, if not terribly effective, method of resuscitation at the time.

On May 1st 1978, the first spam email was written by a man named Gary Thuerk. Sent out two days later to around 600 unwilling recipients, it advertised open houses on America's west coast for computer company Digital Equipment Corp.

An A-cup weighs about quarter pound; a B, 1/2 a pound; a C, 3/4 of a pound; and D, one pound.
Most women have some nipple hair. Having 3 to 12  strands of hair is common.
About 2.2million women in the US have breast implants, with 260,000 new implants each year.
It's not all that strange for a woman or a man to have an extra nipple.
The left breast is usually larger than the right breast.

In 1958, an anti-corruption candidate was put forward for council elections in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. What was unusual about the candidate was that she was a five-year-old rhinoceros called Cacareco; even more unusually, Cacareco gained 100,000 votes - more than any other party. Officials refused to accept the result, and Cacareco never took office. Today, the term "Voto Cacareco" (Cacareco vote) is commonly used to describe protest votes in Brazil.