The human brain will learn any word it hears 160 times over 14 minutes.

Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge recently found that it technically takes less than fifteen minutes to learn a new word, given enough aural repetitions. Not only that, but you do not even have to speak the word or think about it at all! All it takes is a bit of passive listening on the part of the learner - your brain will automatically work on its own to form a network of neurons devoted to remembering that one word. This task is quite difficult for the mind at first, but towards the end of the 14-minute period, the new memory traces will be nearly identical to that of any other word in your prexisting lexicon!

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McDonald's oatmeal contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than one of their cheeseburgers!

At first glance, the breakfast item may seem to be a "healthier" option than most of their other fast food fare. Fear not though - the restaurant has somehow managed to Mac-ify even their most simple, wholesome options. The concoction's 'cream' (if you can call it that) contains a total of seven different ingredients, only two of which are real dairy.

This creamy substance is added to the oatmeal automatically, and brown sugar is also routinely tossed in unless the customer asks for it not to be included. Even though the mixture's diced apples, dried cranberries, and raisins are all presumably as natural as possible...the oatmeal itself contains seven separate components, one of which has been labeled 'natural flavor'. Bleh...GROSS.
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There’s a roller coaster designed to kill passengers.

The Euthanasia Coaster reaches a height of 1600 feet, followed by a steep plummet all the way down, and then seven consecutive loops. Passengers will be spinning upside-down while travelling at a speed of 223 miles per hour. The gravitational force put on the passengers by this ride is 10 Gs, enough to kill a person. Essentially, the blood in a person’s body will be forced away from the head, cutting off the brain’s supply to oxygen, resulting in death. The idea behind this roller coaster is to give people a chance to have a lot of fun before they die. Currently, the Euthanasia Coaster only exists as a scale model, and there aren’t any plans yet to begin construction.
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Napoleon Dynamite cost only $400,000 to make, but it made over $45 million.

Napoleon Dynamite cost only $400,000 to make, but it made over $45 million.

If you’ve seen the film, it shouldn’t come any surprise to you that it cost so little to produce. More surprisingly was the fact that it made back over 100 times its budget in revenue in less than a year.
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A woman was caught smuggling 65 snakes in her bra.

Swedish customs officials performed a search on a suspicious 42-year-old woman as she was attempting to cross the border. They found 65 baby grass snakes concealed in her bra, along with six lizards hiding in her blouse. She told them that she was trying to start a reptile farm.
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