- Lions can open car doors. (The independent)
- A swarm of red bees was responsible for the discovery of New York’s biggest marijuana farm (Daily Beast)
- A Woodpecker can fly with a Weasel on it’s back.
- People tend to unconsciously sniff their hands after a handshake. (New Scientist)
- Regularly sleeping more than eight hours puts you at much higher risk for stroke. (Bustle)
- A new specie of Monkey was discovered in the Amazon forest in Brazil. The monkeys which go by the general name titi or Milton’s is scientifically named Callicebus miltoni and was spotted in 2011
- People built the “City of the Monkey God” a thousand years ago in the Honduran jungle.
- Dogs are less stressed when classical music is played to them. (Daily express)
- Fewer large US companies are run by women than by men named John. (New York times)
- An athlete named Reg Spiers posted himself from London, UK, to Perth, Australia in the mid-1960s in a wooden crate. (BBC)
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