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Alice Ball (1892-1916), an African-American chemist who created the first effective treatment for leprosy when she was only 23 years.

Annie Easley was an African American woman rocket scientist, mathematician, and computer scientist who worked as a human calculator for NASA.(1933-2011)

A theoretical physicist, Shirley Jackson was the first black woman to graduate with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Wangari Maathai was a biologist, environmental activist, and the first woman in East & Central Africa to earn a PhD and the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize too.

Erasto B. Mpemba (born 1950), is a Tanzanian scientist and physicist who discovered the eponymous Mpemba effect, a paradoxical phenomenon in which hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions.

"Samoyed" is the most expensive dog breed in the world. Going for almost $14,000.

The smallest dog breed in the world, the 'Chihuahua' is also one of (if not the) cheapest dog breeds to own.

The Sahara Desert in North Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.

Africa has over 25% of the world's bird species.

Most of the world’s oxygen (about 70%) comes from seaweeds and other microscopic algae.

Watching high-quality television dramas can improve your emotional intelligence and enhance your ability to read other people’s emotions.

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

LEGO has an underground bunker that holds all the LEGO sets made since the company started in the mid-90s.

If there's no supply of oxygen for 5 to 10 minutes in the human body, it will result in permanent brain damage.

A Nigerian cook, survived 3 days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken tugboat. He was later rescued by divers who were searching for bodies from the sunken boat.

If you put some Viagra in a vase, it will make flowers stand up straight for a week beyond when they would normally wilt, according to one study.
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The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consists of at least 60% fat.

kimwizzy said:

If you put some Viagra in a vase, it will make flowers stand up straight for a week beyond when they would normally wilt, according to one study.
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A very suprising fact

kimwizzy said:

The human brain is the fattest organ in the body and may consists of at least 60% fat.

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I agree

Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.