The French Foreign Legion is the only military branch in the world open to people of any nationality!

The FFL was established in 1831 and is lead exclusively by French officers, but it open to all nationalities to serve in.

Today, the legion is known as an elite military unit. The training is said to be both physically and psychologically straining due to the culture shock the soldiers face.

They conquered Algeria to create colonies from 1830-1847. They assisted Spain, fought the Crimean War and numerous others since then.

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There’s a mysterious underwater rock off the coast of Japan!

The Yonaguni Island is the western most part of Japan and contains many mysteries. It is home of the largest moth in the world as well as an extremely small pony called the Yonaguni Pony. It is also very famous for its diving areas.

The island, however, is most famous for the Yonaguni Monument. The monument is underwater and is nicknamed the Japanese Atlantis. It is debated whether the structure is manmade or natural. It features rock appearing to be roads and waterways.

Some say that it is a lost civilization and others say it is natural rock that formed from tectonic plate activity and sediment rock. Check out the video!

Even though Ash Ketchum is supposed to catch all of the pokemon, he's only caught 40 different kinds!

Over the fourteen years he's been out on his journey, he's only caught 40 out of the 649 pokemon in the pokemon universe. However, he does have 30 Taurus that he caught on one of the episodes that was banned .

He's also been 10 years old since the beginning of the series!

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Stomach acid can dissolve razor blades!

It’s true! Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve a razor blade. What other crazy things is the body capable of? Well, your brain uses the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb and the human brain can hold five times more information than Wikipedia can!

Your body alone gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to boil a half of a gallon of water. Check out the source for more interesting facts on the miracles of the human body.

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A man trained crows to find loose change in exchange for peanuts!

Josh Klein is an animal behavior researcher in New York. He is working towards changing people’s minds about crows. Instead of seeing them as a nuisance, he says they are a highly intelligent and trainable animal that we could benefit from.

How intelligent? He says they are smarter than chimpanzees and dolphins! Klein has created a Crow Box that dispenses peanuts when the crows deposit loose change found on the street into it. It’s estimated that at any given time there is $250 million in lost change lying around on city streets. Though, Klein has never revealed how much he’s made off of the trained crows, he is sharing his Crow Box idea.

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