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Thought it would be interesting to have a thread for us to chuck random facts at each other.

Just found out that only 2% of Earth population naturally has green eyes.
 
Ant's take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12 hour period.
 
Hey DH

Here is some Internet facts for you to enjoy

There are over 5.1 billion active internet users.

There are more than 1.86 billion websites online.

4.28 billion people use their mobile devices to go online.

There are 198.4 million active websites on the web.
Around 7 million blog posts get published per day.

There are 4.2 billion active social media users in 2021.
47% of internet users globally use an ad-blocker today.

Cybercrime costs $3.5 billion for US businesses in 2019.

Twenty-six smart objects are located near every human on earth.

As of 2021, more than 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
 
6 different diseases have been eradicated because of vaccines.

The six diseases:

1. Smallpox: The U.S. announced smallpox eradicated in 1972. Less than a decade later, it became the first and only disease eliminated worldwide.

2. Polio: A polio vaccine was unveiled in 1955, and the disease was declared eliminated by 1979.

3. Diphtheria: People first received the vaccine in the 1920s, and the CDC reported less than five cases in the U.S. over the past decade.

4. Mumps: Only a few hundred people in the U.S. contract the disease every year, thanks to a vaccine introduced in 1967.

5. Measles: The CDC recently warned the U.S. could lose its elimination status if the country's current outbreak continues through the fall.

6. Rubella: Vaccines were first introduced in the 1960s, and the World Health Organization declared rubella eliminated from the Americas in 2015.
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www.beckershospitalreview.com

6 diseases the U.S. eliminated thanks to vaccines

An article in Business Insider outlines six diseases eliminated in the U.S. due to vaccines.
www.beckershospitalreview.com www.beckershospitalreview.com
 
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The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don't realize what lies beneath the surface. In the '10s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as high as 33 feet.
 
Adolf Hitler was a drug addict. He used cocaine, pervitin or crystal methamphetamine, oxycodone, and morphine.


When Hitler heard about the plan to invade through Ardennes, he loved it [the allies were massed in northern Belgium]. But the high command said: it’s not possible, at night we have to rest, and they [the allies] will retreat and we will be stuck in the mountains. But then the stimulant decree was released, and that enabled them to stay awake for three days and three nights. Rommel [who then led one of the panzer divisions] and all those tank commanders were high – and without the tanks, they certainly wouldn’t have won.”

A tube of Pervitin

Pervitin: Nazi Germany’s drug of choice.
Thereafter, drugs were regarded as an effective weapon by high command, one that could be deployed against the greatest odds.
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www.theguardian.com

High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history

German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war
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newrepublic.com

The Third Reich Was Addicted to Drugs

At the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.
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Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise. It travels around the sun once every 225 Earth days but it rotates clockwise once every 243 days.
 
There's a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. For those who romanticize a burial at sea, the company Eternal Reefs offers an innovative solution. It mixes the cremated remains of a person with concrete to create a "pearl" onto which loved ones can etch personal messages, handprints or (environmentally friendly) mementos. The pearl is then encased in a "reef ball" that is dropped into the sea, where it provides a new habitat for fish and other sea life, helping encourage a vibrant ecosystem.
 
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