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A 2008 study found that the more bumper stickers a car has, the more likely its driver is to exhibit road rage - stickers serve as a marker of territoriality, which correlates with higher aggression.

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White sugar isn’t always vegan. In the US, many brands use bone char (from animal bones) in the refining process to bleach the sugar.

During pregnancy, your feet may grow by about half a shoe size — roughly 0.4 inches (1 cm) in length.

Every day, Google fields around 14 billion searches — and 15% of them, nearly 2 billion, have never been searched before.

The technology behind the first electric rice cookers, introduced in 1955, is still widely used today. Like the bicycle, it’s often seen as ‘perfected’ technology.

The 10,000-steps-a-day goal doesn’t originate from clinical science. Instead, it comes from a 1965 marketing campaign by a Japanese company that was selling pedometers.

Elephants, dolphins, and parrots use unique name-like calls to identify themselves as individuals. Whales and bats are suspected of doing the same.

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