Animal Facts: Dinosaurs weren't the biggest animals to ever exist, and the current champ is still around today!

Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These magnificent marine mammals rule the ocean at up to 100 feet long and upwards of 200 tons.Did you know that a blue whale's member can reach a length of up to 8 feet? That's taller than a professional basketball player!Also, a blue whale's heart is the size of a car, and each of it's lungs the size of a bathtub. Their mouths can hold 100 people inside, and they eat 4 tons...

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Matrix-Like Chicken Farming: Is Removing Chicken Brain the Solution to Animal Cruelty?

Cramped cages. Extreme temperatures. Filthy surroundings. No doubt about it: Our industrial food system treats animal welfare as an afterthought. As a commentary on today's “modern” farming, a London architecture student has created a thought-provoking design for a chicken farm that strips the birds of their mobility—and their brains. Royal College of Art student André Ford created the installation, dubbed The Centre for Unconscious Farming....

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Movie Facts: There was actually a Japanese Spider-Man Movie!

The 1978 "Supaidāman" movie isn't a bootleg; it's the product of Marvel licensing their characters out to Toei, a Japanese production company, to be used however they wanted. It is, however, completely insane. Instead of Peter Parker, this series focused on Takuya Yamashiro, a motorcycle racer whose father, a "space archaeologist," equipped him with a transformation-inducing wristband that gave him control of a giant fighting robot...

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iTunes had a different name before Apple purchased it.

iTunes has not always been property of Apple inc. This software that seems to never reach it's maximum upgrade has a story that backs all the way to the 1990s.SoundJam MP was an early Mac OS compatible MP3 player and Rio-compatible hardware synchronization manager that was released in July 1998 and was available until June 2001.Jeff Robbin and Bill Kincaid developed SoundJam MP with assistance from Dave Heller. Prior to working together on SoundJam...

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A man once ran a newspaper ad asking for men to accompany him on a dangerous journey!

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.Away from his expeditions, Shackleton's life was generally restless and unfulfilled. In his search for rapid pathways to wealth and security, he launched many business ventures and other money-making schemes, none of which prospered. His financial...

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The world's largest cave wasn't discovered until 1991!

  The Son Doong Cave in Vietnam is by far, the largest cave in the world. The cave is over 5.5 miles long, is home to a jungle, river, and could easily fit a 40-story skyscraper within it! Incredibly, the cave wasn't discovered until 1991. However, the man was frightened by the massive drop at the entrance of the cave, so he didn't further explore it.It wasn't until 2009 that a team of British Cavers decided to explore it. Now, in 2014, a...

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This Chinese man has saved more than 144 lives—and he's not a doctor!

Chen Si is a Chinese good Samaritan who has stopped more than 144 people from jumping off of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China.Since 2003, Chen Si has spent every weekend on the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a notorious spot from which to commit suicide. Si patrols the bridge on foot and on his motorbike, looking for people who might be contemplating suicide.To Si, these are people "who look depressed, those whose psychological...

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