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4 Bloody Amazing Vampire Bat Facts

February 18, 2019February 12, 2019 by Useless Media

A typical female vampire bat can drink half her body weight in blood during a 20-minute feeding. BAT LOVERS SHOULD FIND THIS BLOODY INTERESTING (Warning: If you’re eating, you might …

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7 Amazing Thomas Jefferson Facts

March 3, 2019February 10, 2019 by Useless Media

Sure, you know Thomas Jefferson as that guy on the nickel. And, if you stayed awake in history class, you’re probably aware he was our third president and helped write …

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At first, it sounds like one of the silliest laws ever: in Switzerland, you're not allowed to own just one guinea pig. The reason for this is that they're social species, and they are considered victims of abuse if they aren't able to regularly interact with others of their species.

Random Fact: It is also illegal in Switzerland to own only one Parrot because they get lonely by themselves.

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Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone! #uselessknowledge #coolfacts #trivia #amazingfacts #funfacts #factoftheday #history #inventions #inventor #telephone #alexandergrahambell ...

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Dr. Seuss was the first person to use the word “Nerd” in his 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo. The term was used as a noun to describe one of his geeky creatures. One year later, the word appeared in a Newsweek article as Detroit slang describing someone who was a square.

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Two percent of humans carry an unusual form of a specific gene (ABCC11), which means their armpits never smell.

Random Fact: In 1888, the first modern commercial deodorant, Mum, was developed and patented by a U.S. inventor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edna Murphey.

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Rats, generally, are baby-making machines. According to Discover Magazine, female brown rats can mate around 500 times in a six-hour period and can produce up to 2,000 offspring in a year.

Chinese health officials have resorted to giving feral rats flavored birth-control pills to reduce the population.

Random Fact: A group of rats is called a mischief.

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The role of Monica on Friends was offered to Janeane Garofalo, who turned it down.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records (2005), Cox (along with her female co-stars) became the highest-paid TV actress of all time, with her US$1 million-per-episode fee for the final two seasons of Friends.

All six cast members — Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry — receive 2 percent of the syndication income, which is about $20 million for each person per year, USA Today reports. The show brings in about $1 billion per year for Warner Bros.

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Bats make up a quarter of all mammals. There are more than 1,100 species of bats in the world, and they play an essential role in our ecosystem. The ecological roles of bats include pollinating and dispersing the seeds of hundreds of species of plants. For example, bats serve as primary pollinators of many types of cacti that open their flowers only at night when bats are active. Also, bats eat copious quantities of insects and other arthropods.
Random Fact: Vampire bats can carry rabies, making their bites potentially dangerous, and they can live up to an average of nine years in the wild and up to 20 years in captivity.

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