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16.04.2025

Learn Something Interesting: The Fallacy of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Being Short in Stature

Napoleon Bonaparte was not actually short in stature, in fact he was of average height. This misconception stems from paperwork being written about Bonaparte which states that he was 5’2″, written as 5 pieds 2 pouces within France during the early 19th century, but it was from a French town which used an antiquated unit…

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24.04.2025

Learn Something Interesting: The North Korean Government Executing Convicted Persons for Minor Criminal Offenses

North Korea is the only country on the world which kills its citizens for making unauthorized international telephone calls. Many assassinations have been made for similar reasons such as sleeping on the job as was the case when 1 person was killed, defaming Kim Jong Un's wife as was the case when 9 people were…

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01.05.2025

Learn Something Interesting: The Color of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Cleopatra’s Skin

Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, was of Macedonian descent, which makes her Greek, as her family was established by Ptolemy I, a soldier who later became a General within Alexander III's military force, a person more commonly referred to as "Alexander the Great". The Ptolemies practiced interfamily marriage, meaning siblings, or more…

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07.05.2025

Learn Something Interesting: The Caribbean Village of Biological Males Born Without Male Genitalia

There is a village in the Dominican Republic called Salinas, in which 1 in 90 of the people born are born as males, with testicles, but without a penis, because of misconstrued instructions at birth. In males, the gene on the Y chromosome, specifically the Sex Determining Region Y (SRY), instructs the gonads to become…

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