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The fruit was called orange before the color!

It's sort of a chicken-and-egg question. What came first? the fruit or the color orange? Well all evidence points to the fruit. The word orange appears in the English language as early as the 13th century, but refering to the fruit. The earliest reference to orange as a color is found in the 16th century.

The color orange was previously called geoluhread, which just meant yellow-red. Geoluhread comes from Old English or Middle English. Orange is said to have no true rhyme, and many funny poems have been inspired and written about it. The word, however, does have half-rhymes or near rhymes and some proper nouns that rhyme with it.

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There’s a 95% chance of human extinction in the next 9000 years!

It might sound scary, but there's a mathematical argument called the Doomsday Argument that says just that. Many prominent academics have subscribed to this argument.

Without getting into the math, the argument states that humans alive today are more likely than not to be about halfway through the lifespan of the human race. 

A few caveats, the argument does not say that all life will die; just human life. It also doesn’t say that humanity can’t or won’t exist after those 9000 years. It just states that statistically it probably won’t exist for more than the next 9000 years. That means that it's not predicting that human extinction will happen, it's just giving us odds. Read more about it at the source.

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Some people have internal clocks longer than 24 hours. It's called the Non-24-hour Sleep-Wake Syndrome!

It’s a chronic sleep disorder and most often affects those living in a time-isolated facility with no time cues. It consists of a chronic steady pattern of one to two hour daily delays in sleep onset and wake times in an individual living in society.

The pattern of delay continues literally around the clock. It takes a week or two to complete a cycle. It causes nighttime sleepiness and excessive daytime fatigue and napping.  

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A Japanese scientist made a burger out of human feces!

A Japanese scientist named Mitsuyuki Ikeda developed a new burger made from sewage! Ikeda says he developed the meat to combat rising meat prices and environmental damage. He claims the new meat is healthier and less damaging to nature because it is all recycled material.

The bacteria in the sewage is rendered harmless from heating and added chemicals. It consists of 63 percent protein, 25 percent carbohydrates, 3 percent lipids, 9 percent minerals, and looks almost identical to red meat!

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There’s a boy who can stick metal to his skin!

An eleven-year-old boy living in Brazil named Paulo David Amorim has earned the nickname “Magnet Boy” because of his amazing ability to stick metal objects to his body! Amorim can attract anything from forks, knives, and even casserole pots to his body, and he’s actually not the only one who has the talent.

Scientists aren’t sure why this strange phenomenon occurs, but they had deduced that these peoples’ bodies don’t have a magnetic field like previously believed, but rather have much higher levels of friction than the average person causing a “suction” effect on metal objects.

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