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Fact Writing was probably invented for accounting The oldest substantial texts are receipts, not poetry. 1 min read Fact Nuclear testing left a timestamp in every living thing Atmospheric bomb tests doubled carbon-14, and biology recorded the spike. 1 min read Fact Zero took centuries to be accepted in Europe Some Italian cities banned it as an invitation to fraud. 1 min read Fact Twenty-three people give you a better than even chance of a shared birthday It feels like it should take hundreds. It takes a small classroom. 1 min read Fact Studying for an exam in the room you will sit it in helps Divers who learned word lists underwater recalled them better underwater. 1 min read Fact The Sahara was green within human history Lakes, hippos, and rock paintings of people swimming. 1 min read Fact Naked mole rats almost never get cancer and barely feel acid They are also cold-blooded mammals that live in colonies like ants. 1 min read Fact Anaesthesia is younger than the United States Surgery before 1846 was conducted on fully conscious patients. 1 min read Fact It probably rains diamonds on Neptune Extreme pressure splits methane and the carbon falls as gems. 1 min read Fact A lake in Cameroon suffocated 1,700 people in one night No eruption, no earthquake. The water simply exhaled. 1 min read