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"the only friend I’ve got is mary, and I don’t want anybody else. to me, she was my common-law wife. to me, it was a marriage."
-freddie mercury
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The words: "The most dangerous animal in the world" were printed in red on top of a cage. Behind the bars of the cage, there was a mirror. The exhibit allowed the human visitors to peer into the cage and see their reflection — marking them as "most dangerous".
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Steve Irwin's son, Robert Irwin, becomes the first person to breed and hatch a turtle species his Dad discovered, and now he takes them out for their first swim.
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The doors were originally located in the Roman Curia, built around 80 BC. Julius Caesar would have walked through them on his way to work. They were moved here to the Lateran in the 1600s
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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Robin Williams
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This isn't an optical illusion! The Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala does produce volcanic lightning
Credit: Derrick Douglas Steele via Storyful
Location: Antigua, Guatemala
Date: July 10
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In 1948, Peter Witt studied the effect of drugs on spiders. He conducted an experiment in which he dosed the spiders by feeding them drugged flies or by giving them a drop of a drug in water. He then photographed their webs before and after the drugs were administered.
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Golden Sandals of Tutankhamun
A pair of golden sandals of Tutankhamun found on his feet. These stunning gold sandals were just one of 42 pairs King Tutankhamun had in his tomb. Too many ointments poured on Tutankhamun’s mummy caused severe damage to the tissues, except for those…
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
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There are reports that infection by this bacteria caused the wounds of Civil War soldiers to glow, which aided survival by the secreted antibiotic without being toxic to the humans. This phenomenon was called "Angel's Glow"
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
Honore de Balzac
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I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.
Terry Fox
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The massive doors of Saint John Lateran are over 2,000-years-old. They are so perfectly balanced it takes only one person to open and close them
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein