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5 of the Most Expensive Weddings in History
Weddings are often a pretty expensive occasion in one’s life. Recent surveys suggest that the average UK wedding will cost in excess of £16,164, which by most people’s standards is a lot of money, but rightly so on one of the most …
Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences
Said to have been a part of Chinese culture for centuries, with increasing notoriety in the past few years, is the practice of lower class men and women being hired as body doubles to help the wealthy avoid paying for their crimes. …
Getting angry at people when we listen to them breathing or eating is called Misophonia and is an actual brain disorder
Misophonia is Greek meaning an “extreme dislike of sound” and is a term first used by the US scientists Pawel and Margaret Jastreboff in 2001. However, misophonia is not just the dislike of sound. To suffer from it is to avoid the …
6 Interesting Facts About Polar Bears
Polar bears (or Ursus Maritimus – to give them their posh Latin name) can be found pretty much anywhere inside the Arctic Circle – Canada, Russia, Greenland etc, and are the largest living land carnivore with males coming in at 400-600kg and females …
‘Dysania’ is the state of finding it hard getting up out of bed in the morning
Are you a Clinomaniac? Clinomania, or Dysania as it is more commonly known, causes sufferers to find it extremely difficult to get out of bed in the morning. Clinomania, from the Greek clino (bed) and mania (addiction) is literally an addiction to …