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There is a tiny species of jellyfish that looks like a rotund piglet.

There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette ever said ‘Let them eat cake.’ The phrase is attributed to an unknown ‘great princess’ in a 1767 work by Jean- Jacques Rousseau, which was written before Antoinette’s arrival in France.

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^She did, however, dress herself up like a milkmaid and pretend to be a farm girl.

We’re really bad at cutting avocados. So many people have cut themselves while trying to slice open the slippery fruit that hospital employees often refer to the injury as ‘avocado hand’.

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The human stomach can "taste" sodium glutamate using glutamate receptors and this information is passed to the lateral hypothalamus and limbic system in the brain as a palatability signal through the vagus nerve. The stomach can also sense, independently to tongue and oral taste receptors, glucose, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

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In most common wealth countries ''Income Tax'' is actually ''Voluntary''

The creator of Powerpuff Girls, the creator of Dexter’s Laboratory, and the creator of Johnny Bravo were all roommates in college.

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When Deinonychus was first discovered, it was thought to be another sub-species of Velsoraptor Veloseraptor I can't spell today.

Tennis players Marion Bartoli and David Ferrer are cat lovers.

Contrary to what The Irrelevant Show will have you believe, the bagpipes were not invented by a goose choking on a kazoo.

Charles Darwin was obsessed with earthworms. He dedicated 40 years of his life to studying them, and his book on earthworms actually outsold his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, in its initial run.

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The creator of Pokemon had bug-catching in mind when he first started thinking up ideas.

^That much?! Wow!

Spanish tennis player Juan Carlos Ferrero is the owner of his own hotel, The Hotel Ferrero in Valencia, Spain and was the tournament director of the now defunct Valencia tennis tournament.

He was named for the former King of Spain, Juan Carlos I.

He considered giving up tennis at age 16 following his mother's death from cancer, but was motivated to continue because of her.

Denis Istomin likes to play pool in his spare time. Rack 'em, Deni!